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DMs, mentions, and alerts

You can configure desktop, mobile, and email notifications for direct messages (DMs), mentions, and alert words.

These settings will affect notifications for direct messages, group direct messages, mentions, and alert words.

  1. Go to Notifications.
  2. In the Notification triggers table, toggle the settings for DMs, mentions, and alerts.

You can also hide the content of direct messages (and group direct messages) from desktop notifications.

  1. Under Desktop message notifications, toggle Include content of direct messages in desktop notifications.

You can configure which types of notifications you want to receive for wildcard mentions (@all, @everyone, @channel) and @topic mentions separately from personal @-mentions.

  1. Go to Notifications.
  2. In the Notification triggers table, toggle the @all checkbox for Channels or Followed topics.

Additionally, you can override this configuration for individual channels in your Channel settings, and administrators can restrict use of wildcard mentions in large channels.

Zulip lets you to specify alert words or phrases that send you a desktop notification whenever the alert word is included in a message. Alert words are case-insensitive.

  1. Go to Alert words.
  2. Click Add alert word.
  3. Type a word or phrase, and click Add.
  1. Go to Alert words.
  2. Click the delete ( ) icon next to the alert word that you would like to remove.