Article version: Enterprise Server 2.14

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About notifications

Notifications provide updates about the activities and conversations you're interested in. You can receive notifications on GitHub Enterprise or through your email client.

Types of notifications

The notifications you receive will either be participating notifications or watching notifications. Both types of notifications can be received as web notifications or email notifications. For more information, see:

Tip: If you receive both web and email notifications, you can automatically sync the read or unread status of the notification so that web notifications are automatically marked as read once you've read the corresponding email notification. To enable this sync, your email client must be able to view images from 'the no-reply email address configured by your site administrator'.

Participating notifications

GitHub Enterprise sends participating notifications when you're directly involved in activities or conversations within a repository or a team you're a member of. You'll receive a notification when:

Watching notifications

GitHub Enterprise sends watching notifications for updates in repositories or team discussions that you're watching. You'll receive a notification when:

You can also browse activity from people you follow, repositories you watch, and organizations you're a member of on your dashboard. For more information, see "About your personal dashboard."

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