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---
title: Choosing the delivery method for your notifications
intro: 'You can receive your notifications on {% data variables.product.product_location %} or have them delivered through your email client.'
versions:
enterprise-server: <2.21
---
For personal accounts, notification emails are automatically sent to your default notification email.
{% data reusables.notifications.outbound_email_tip %}
### Choosing the delivery method for notifications about repository activity
{% data reusables.user_settings.access_settings %}
{% data reusables.user_settings.notifications %}
3. Configure how you would like to receive notifications you either participate in or watch by selecting the checkboxes:
- Selecting **Email** sends an email to your default notification email.
- Selecting **Web** allows you to access the notifications on {% data variables.product.product_location %}.
![Configuring notification settings](/assets/images/help/settings/ent-notifications-settings.png)
4. If you selected **Email** for conversations you're either participating in or watching, choose which updates you receive by selecting the checkboxes in the "Notification email" section:
- Select **Comments on Issues and Pull Requests** to receive an email when someone makes a comment in an issue or in the "Conversation" tab of a pull request.
- Select **Pull request reviews** to receive an email when someone makes a review comment in the "Files changed" tab of a pull request.
- Select **Pull request pushes** to receive an email when someone adds commits to a pull request that you're subscribed to.
- Select **Include your own updates** to receive an email when you open, comment on, or close an issue or pull request.
![Configuring email notification options](/assets/images/help/settings/email_notification_settings.png)
### Choosing the delivery method for security alerts for vulnerable dependencies
{% data reusables.repositories.security-alert-delivery-options %}
{% data reusables.repositories.enable-security-alerts %}
{% data reusables.user_settings.access_settings %}
{% data reusables.user_settings.notifications %}
3. Under "Security alerts", configure how you would like to receive notifications when {% data variables.product.product_name %} detects a vulnerable dependency in your repository:
![Options to configure notifications for security alerts](/assets/images/help/settings/vulnerability-alerts-options.png)
- Selecting **UI alerts** displays a banner in the {% data variables.product.product_name %} interface.
- Selecting **Command Line** displays warnings as a callback when you push to a repository with vulnerabilities.
- Selecting **Web** allows you to access the notifications on {% data variables.product.product_location %}.
- Selecting **Email each time a vulnerability is found** sends an email to your default notification email.
- Selecting **Email a digest summary of vulnerabilities** sends a digest email with a summary of up to 10 repositories' security alerts. Use the drop-down menu to choose to receive digest emails daily or weekly.
### Further reading
- "[About notifications](/enterprise/{{ currentVersion }}/user/github/receiving-notifications-about-activity-on-github/about-notifications)"
- "[About email notifications](/enterprise/{{ currentVersion }}/user/github/receiving-notifications-about-activity-on-github/about-email-notifications)"
- "[About web notifications](/enterprise/{{ currentVersion }}/user/github/receiving-notifications-about-activity-on-github/about-web-notifications)"
- "[Watching and unwatching repositories](/enterprise/{{ currentVersion }}/user/github/receiving-notifications-about-activity-on-github/watching-and-unwatching-repositories)"
- "[Managing email preferences](/articles/managing-email-preferences)"