Email replies are creating new tickets instead of adding as comments

[Desislava Todorova]

Dear Support,

Replying to a Jira notified email creates a new ticket/issue in the system. This is very confusing and hard to consolidate comments from several tickets raised through email response.

We want anyone replying to a Jira notified email to have their comments append to the same ticket/issue and not a new one.

Today I created a new ticket (I'm the Reporter), then I have tried to add comment to this ticket through email response and the reply created a new ticket instead of adding as comment. Please advise how to stop this!

[beacon.grayson]

This is happening in our instance as well, and seems to be limited to when the person is replying to an email in which they were copied on a reply to the system notification. The issue ID is in the subject, but they are not replying to the original system notification. The person replying has permission to comment, so that is not the issue.

[Shashi Matha]

Just read in another thread that if you set 'anyone' can add comments, then it will let anyone to add comments. But the question is whether you want to do that.

[Julie Pitts]

Hi there, I'm having this same issue and found the other thread as well. However, there is no "anyone" option in my comments permissions. Please advise!

[Julie Pitts]

I found this "Public" but it gives me a big warning so I don't want to click it. I'm also trying to just add more users to the add comments permissions and hope that will help

[Josh Mohan]

I am facing this same issue right now - where is this settings page located? I have been digging through the Jira and can't fin this page...

[Priyanka]

@Josh Mohan The setting page is located under Project Settings-> Permissions 

[Jack Brickey]

Hi @Desislava Todorova , to be clear here the Community isn’t the same as Atlassian Support but we generally can assist with issues.

regarding your scenario, for sure if the reply is to a Jira notification email it should add a comment to the existing issue. Can you confirm that the issue key is in the subject of the email that is being replied to?

here is an article on how Jira works in this regard - how-jira-updates-issues-from-email 

[Desislava Todorova]

Yes, the issue key was in the subject of the email