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Managing organization notifications

Learn how to control where notifications from your organization are delivered.

Organization alerts notification options

If you're an organization owner, you'll receive email notifications by default when organization members add new deploy keys to repositories within the organization. You can unsubscribe from these notifications. On the notification settings page, under "Organization alerts", deselect Email.

Choosing where your organization’s email notifications are sent

If you belong to an organization, you can choose the email account you want notifications for organization activity sent to. For example, if you belong to an organization for work, you may want your notifications sent to your work email address, rather than your personal address.

You'll only receive notification emails if you've chosen to receive email notifications in your notification settings.

If an organization you're a member of restricts email notifications to an approved email domain, you'll need to verify an email address in that domain to receive email notifications about activity in the organization. For more information, see Restricting email notifications for your organization.

  1. In the upper-right corner of any page, click .

    Screenshot of the right corner of the header of GitHub. An inbox icon has a blue dot, indicating that there are unread notifications.

  2. In the left sidebar, under the list of repositories, use the "Manage notifications" drop-down to click Notification settings.

    Screenshot of the "Notifications" page. A dropdown menu, titled "Manage notifications", is highlighted with an orange outline.

  3. Under "Default notifications email", select the email address you'd like notifications sent to.

Customizing email routes per organization

If you are a member of more than one organization, you can configure each one to send notifications to any of your verified email addresses. For more information, see Verifying your email address.

  1. In the upper-right corner of any page, click .

    Screenshot of the right corner of the header of GitHub. An inbox icon has a blue dot, indicating that there are unread notifications.

  2. In the left sidebar, under the list of repositories, use the "Manage notifications" drop-down to click Notification settings.

    Screenshot of the "Notifications" page. A dropdown menu, titled "Manage notifications", is highlighted with an orange outline.

  3. Under "Default notifications email", click Custom routing.

    Screenshot of the "Default notifications email" section. A button, titled "Custom routing", is highlighted with an orange outline.

  4. Click Add new route.

  5. Select the Pick organization dropdown, then click the organization you want to customize.

  6. Select one of your verified email addresses, then click Save.

    Screenshot of the "Custom Routing" page. A dropdown menu, showing a user's available email addresses, is highlighted with an orange outline.