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Make JIRA select an appropriate security level by default. This is a customization done in javascript, see below and also https://jira.atlassian.com/browse/JRA-23365
- https://developerconfluence.atlassian.com/display/JIRADEVJIRA043/How+to+Set+Default+Comment+Security+Level
When this is done, JEMH's Event Listener can be configured to ignore any comments with a related security level (see the checkbox in an Event Listener Project Mappingthe Assert Security checkbox in the non-JIRA notification section of a Project Mapping in the Event Listener). To actually notify the remote user, a conscious decision can be made to remove the comment security, letting the Event Listener notify the remote user.
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