title: Why am I not receiving Notification for Pending Approval in my Azure DevOps Server CD?
body: <p>I've created a pre-deployment step in our Azure DevOps 2019 Server to request approval before proceeding. The release works as intended once I approve it within the DevOps system, but no email requesting approval is ever sent out.</p>
  <p>I have googled this ad nauseam and carefully looked over the recommended articles when I created this question so I'm pretty stumped on what to even check next at this point.</p>
  <p>Here is a run down of the things I've tried:</p>
  <p>GLOBAL LEVEL</p>
  <ol>
  <li>Organization Settings --&gt; Global Notifications</li>
  <li>Verified all default subscriptions are enabled</li>
  <li>Subscribers --&gt; Added myself to all notifications</li>
  <li>Settings --&gt; Ensured &quot;Deliver to Individual Members&quot; is checked</li>
  </ol>
  <p>PROJECT LEVEL</p>
  <ol>
  <li>(For the project with the pipeline in question) Project Settings --&gt; Notifications</li>
  <li>Verified that all Notification types are enabled and set to &quot;Individual Members&quot;.
  (Now that I'm looking at this, based on the configuration, my team should be getting spammed with emails...Not a single one is going out)</li>
  </ol>
  <p>PERSONAL/USER LEVEL</p>
  <ol>
  <li>User Icon --&gt; Notifications</li>
  <li>Verified all subscriptions are enabled</li>
  </ol>
  <p>I realize that all of this will probably generate loads of emails. Right now, I'm just trying to get the emails to actually go out. We're new to DevOps so we're just muddling our way through things and docs and youtube for each piece we need and Continuous Deployment is the latest bit I'm digging into. I'm also an administrator on the Organization and the project in question that I'm trying to get this to work with.</p>
  <p>I'm open to any thoughts the community might have or any direction you could provide on what I should troubleshoot next. Thanks!</p>