We recently discovered that anyone with the 'Watcher' role (either from being added as a Watcher or being a Component Watcher) will receive email notification regardless of their 'Do not notify' setting (i.e. from user profile preferences).

The 'Do not notify' setting did prevent emails when a user was only the Assignee (and not a Watcher or Component Watcher) – so it does work in some situations.

Our notification scheme sends emails for the Issue Update event for reporter, watcher, assignee, and some project roles. I would assume that 'Do not notify' should override ANY of these reasons for notification if the issue change is triggered by the user that would be notified.

I see a couple other similar issues but nothing that specifically mentions the failure due to Watcher status. JRA-28523, JRA-39021.

Thanks