The following is intended to provide you with an overview of how S/Notify is integrated in Atlassian Jira, Atlassian Confluence and ConfluenceAtlassian Bitbucket, and how it works to support email encryption.
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The following diagram illustrates a standard Jira, Confluence or Confluence Bitbucket instance that does not protect outgoing or incoming emails. Even with TLS transport encryption between mail servers, there is no real end-to-end encryption. Emails stored on mail servers are in clear text, thus not protected in case of an attack or data leak. Note that emails are unprotected also on the users' computers.
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