Weird, because I just ran into this issue.

Edit: Turns out I didn't have this issue and it was a miscommunication of one of our Confluence Users.

Julian, it looks like the issue was closed and marked fixed.

Is there any update on this? This is kind of a security issue.

Is there a cloud equivalent of this issue? We're experiencing the same issue on Confluence Cloud. Thanks.

I have a user where he has removed all pages and spaces that have been watch both:

SELECT * FROM CONTENT,NOTIFICATIONS,USER_MAPPING WHERE NOTIFICATIONS.USERNAME=USER_MAPPING.USER_KEY AND USER_MAPPING.USERNAME='<user>' AND NOTIFICATIONS.CONTENTID=CONTENT.CONTENTID AND CONTENT.CONTENTTYPE='PAGE';  SELECT SPACENAME FROM SPACES,NOTIFICATIONS,USER_MAPPING WHERE NOTIFICATIONS.USERNAME=USER_MAPPING.USER_KEY AND USER_MAPPING.USERNAME='<user>' AND NOTIFICATIONS.SPACEID=SPACES.SPACEID; 

 return 0 rows and user still receives mail when calendar is updated

stopped watching calendar, stopped watching all pages and spaces, edited mail settings and unchecked everything but "subscribe to new follower notifications."

still get email notifications...is this related to issue above?

We are still waiting the bugfix.

Status: "Short term backlog", created 4 years ago..... I'd hate to see a ticket end up in "long term backlog".

I would like to echo the the issues above.  While it's sometimes useful to send out an update/alert, most of the time if we are making changes or experimenting with the calendar, we do not want notifications to go out to everyone - especially executives.  It would be great if there was an option to choose to send an update and not to have the system assume we want to send them.

I have just experienced the same issue while using the CalDav app. It appears that if you synchronize a Team Calendar with any other calendar, once CalDav 'recreates' those meetings within Confluence, all members of those meetings are then auto-notified of being added to that Team Calendar. There is no simple method of backtracking that - 100's of users can easily be spammed with 100's of notification emails if this happens!

I agree that this is a huge problem as there is no clear method of controlling who is added if they are included in the newly created calendar or calendar event. It makes sense to have the convenience of auto-notifying participants of updates, but this convenience is causing a lot of headache for people who just want to track team calendars vs. manage team calendars!

I also deleted my Team Calendar to address this - Please add an option to "Auto-notify / Manually Notify / Select Users for Notification" in the 'Create a Calendar' and 'Add an Event'.

Confluence Version 6.0.5