Redmine

I have a question for you. Our Redmine install is set up as follows. LDAP for authentication with E-mail from users coming from AD. We have IMAP and SMTP set up and working, and groups of users assigned to each project, in the project, you can create a new ticket, and submit it to the group in some way. The Watchers List indicates who's in each group, and you can select group members. On occasion we select watchers that are registered users but not in the group.

Shown here is a watchers list where we have a couple of members, these selected watchers all receive e-mails.

When we update tickets these watchers are not receiving e-mail notifications, but members of the project or group do receive email notifications. We have the default for all accounts for email's as "Only for things I watch or am involved in". I can replicate this by adding these users to the new issue, "search for watchers to add", or even after adding them using the edit function.

Settings page selected for Email notifications

Here is our default preferences:

is this behavior intended or?

Thanks!