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diff --git a/doc/tools/email.md b/doc/tools/email.md index 0a3e37719a4..1d46a63bae4 100644 --- a/doc/tools/email.md +++ b/doc/tools/email.md @@ -1,60 +1,11 @@ --- -stage: none -group: unassigned -info: To determine the technical writer assigned to the Stage/Group associated with this page, see https://about.gitlab.com/handbook/engineering/ux/technical-writing/#assignments -type: howto, reference +redirect_to: '../user/admin_area/email_from_gitlab.md' +remove_date: '2022-06-18' --- -# Email from GitLab **(PREMIUM SELF)** +This document was moved to [another location](../user/admin_area/email_from_gitlab.md). -GitLab provides a tool to administrators for emailing all users, or users of -a chosen group or project, right from the Admin Area. Users receive the email -at their primary email address. - -For information about email notifications originating from GitLab, read -[GitLab notification emails](../user/profile/notifications.md). - -## Use-cases - -- Notify your users about a new project, a new feature, or a new product launch. -- Notify your users about a new deployment, or that downtime is expected - for a particular reason. - -## Sending emails to users from within GitLab - -1. On the top bar, select **Menu > Admin**. -1. On the left sidebar, select **Overview > Users**. -1. Select **Send email to users**. - -  - -1. Compose an email and choose where to send it (all users or users of a - chosen group or project). The email body only supports plain text messages. - HTML, Markdown, and other rich text formats are not supported, and is - sent as plain text to users. - -  - -NOTE: -[Starting with GitLab 13.0](https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab/-/issues/31509), email notifications can be sent only once every 10 minutes. This helps minimize performance issues. - -## Unsubscribing from emails - -Users can choose to unsubscribe from receiving emails from GitLab by following -the unsubscribe link in the email. Unsubscribing is unauthenticated in order -to keep this feature simple. - -On unsubscribe, users receive an email notification that unsubscribe happened. -The endpoint that provides the unsubscribe option is rate-limited. - -<!-- ## Troubleshooting - -Include any troubleshooting steps that you can foresee. If you know beforehand what issues -one might have when setting this up, or when something is changed, or on upgrading, it's -important to describe those, too. Think of things that may go wrong and include them here. -This is important to minimize requests for support, and to avoid doc comments with -questions that you know someone might ask. - -Each scenario can be a third-level heading, e.g. `### Getting error message X`. -If you have none to add when creating a doc, leave this section in place -but commented out to help encourage others to add to it in the future. --> +<!-- This redirect file can be deleted after <2022-06-18>. --> +<!-- Redirects that point to other docs in the same project expire in three months. --> +<!-- Redirects that point to docs in a different project or site (for example, link is not relative and starts with `https:`) expire in one year. --> +<!-- Before deletion, see: https://docs.gitlab.com/ee/development/documentation/redirects.html --> |