Why is GitLab Sending Email Notifications Twice?

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This question has been asked many times by various developers at the company I work for.

Why I am receiving notification emails twice from GitLab when something happens during a pipeline execution?

There are two settings that have to do with email notifications.

• In global/user settings
• At the project level, ~/YourProject/-/integrations/settings/pipelines_email/

If you enable notifications from your profile AND through integrations, you will receive two emails, depending on the type of event you have configured notifications for.

In my case, I rely on my profile settings (to minimize noise in my inbox) and global settings as set by the team’s GitLab admin.