After adding the mail server and account data at the Notification page, a “Test Connection” button would be quite good.
This test would establish an SMTP-connection to the mail server to check if the data was entered correctly.
As seen on other CMS 
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Martin you are posting some great ideas can you create an account in our jira project and add them?
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Sure.
I also started to work with Jira and Stash, cool products