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NOTE: This suggestion is for Confluence Server. Using Confluence Cloud? See the corresponding suggestion.
Importing Word document with images into Confluence page will generate notifications for each of the images which causing users being spammed with emails.
Only one notification is expected for the one Word document.
Workaround
You can disable a system add-on that sends notifications on attachment uploads to pages to work around this, but it will disable uploads of any attachments to any pages, not just on Word imports.
The following steps will disable the specific modules that send this notification:
- Go to
-> Add-ons -> All add-ons (from the drop-down) - Look for Confluence File Notifications and expand it
- Open the modules of the add-on
- Disable file-content-update-notification & file-content-delete-notification
You won't get any notifications of attachment events anymore until this module is re-enabled.
On the version 5.10.x or later, the module name is changed to:
- file-content-update-notification
- file-content-remove-notification
And disabling these 2 modules will not have any impact on the attachment upload functionality.
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[CONFSERVER-23336] Importing from Word document with images should not generate notifications for each images
Nice surprise for our CIO this morning to get 150 emails before I had to ultimately just disable email sending in Confluence. Really, an open bug since 2011? Please fix this. It is a bit ridiculous.
This affects a new customers first impression of Confluence. We're trying to convince users to let go of their file attachments and move into handling content in a wiki mode instead. The wiki alternative needs to be less painful. 
This appears to still be an issue with the server version 6.3.1. We recently had a user upload a few word docs to create pages. This caused everyone watching the space to get hundreds of emails. Each email was a link to each individual image in each upload. It would make more sense when using the "Upload Word Doc" function to only send out one update email per upload with a link to the created page.
It seems like this is still an issue. When I import a Word-document to Confluence Cloud, a lot of notifications are sent out (once for each picture in the document that is added as an attachment). Did the issue referenced as "is incorporated by" really fix this?
Is there any workaround for confluence server version 7.7.2 ???