Commit 99b500f3 authored by Achilleas Pipinellis's avatar Achilleas Pipinellis

Update Email from GitLab docs

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# Email from GitLab # Email from GitLab
## Overview >**Note:**
Available in [GitLab Enterprise Edition Starter][ee].
As a GitLab administrator you can email GitLab users from within GitLab. As a GitLab administrator you can email GitLab users from within GitLab.
## Overview
GitLab provides a simple tool to email all users or users of a chosen group or
project right from the admin area. Users will receive the email to their primary
email address.
## Use-cases ## Use-cases
- Notify your users about a new project, a new feature, or a new product launch. - Notify your users about a new project, a new feature, or a new product launch.
- Notify your users about a new deployment, or that will be downtime expected - Notify your users about a new deployment, or that will be downtime expected
for a particular reason. for a particular reason.
## Description ## Sending emails to users from within GitLab
In the administrator interface, go to `Users`. Here you will find the button to email users: 1. Go to the admin area using the wrench icon in the top right corner and
navigate to **Overview > Users > Send email to users**.
![admin users](email1.png) ![admin users](email1.png)
Here you can simply compose an email. 1. Compose an email and choose where it will be sent (all users or users of a
chosen group or project):
![compose an email](email2.png) ![compose an email](email2.png)
Which will be sent to all users or users of a chosen group or project. ## Unsubscribing from emails
![recipients](email3.png) User can choose to unsubscribe from receiving emails from GitLab by following
the unsubscribe link from the email. Unsubscribing is unauthenticated in order
## Note to keep the simplicity of this feature.
User can choose to unsubscribe from receiving emails from GitLab by following the unsubscribe link from the email.
Unsubscribing is unauthenticated in order to keep the simplicity of this feature.
On unsubscribe, user will receive an email notifying that unsubscribe happened. On unsubscribe, user will receive an email notifying that unsubscribe happened.
Endpoint that provides unsubscribe option is protected by request being rate-limited. The endpoint that provides the unsubscribe option is rate-limited.
[ee]: https://about.gitlab.com/gitlab-ee/
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