You should now get all personal notifications to this Slack channel.

Navigate to Preferences → Notifications and change your “Notification Email” to the Slack one you just added.

This will require expanding the email message within the Slack notification.

Click the link in the email sent to your new channel (in Slack) in order to verify the email.

Copy the email and navigate to Preferences (upper right user icon) → Emails in GitLab.

Optional: click “Customize Email Appearance” with an image (such as the gitlab logo) and message name.

Click “Send emails to this conversation”.

Click your name at the top and navigate to the “Integrations” pane.

Navigate to a DM with yourself in Slack by hitting cmd+k or ctrl+k and type your name.

WorkaroundsĪn alternative approach to addressing this problem is by setting up email notifications from GitLab to forward to your Slack personal DMs. GitHub's Slack integration also supports Scheduled Reminders.

ToolĪcquired by solution looks like it might work with self-hosted instances given one of the arguments is GITLAB_EXTERNAL_URL Some paid tools provide this kind of thing, it might be a sign that there’s value in it. Support notifications for MR reviews and remind them in Slack if MRs are pending their review and approvals.

Slack reminder list