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tomus
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Jun 18, 2019

Delay Send Feature on Teams Posts

Would anyone in this forum find it useful to be able to type a message in Teams (either 1:1 chat or a team thread), hit enter, and have that message not sent until the recipient's status is available? Ideally, this would be an option for which we could set a default (either on or off) and then toggle it for an individual message with a keyboard shortcut depending upon the message's urgency. Hopefully, it would be handled at the cloud level (not the local level like in Outlook) so that it is not dependent on the sender's computer being awake when the recipient's status becomes available.

 

There is an idea posted for this in a UserVoice forum, but it does not have many votes yet.
https://microsoftteams.uservoice.com/forums/555103-public/suggestions/18874141-time-delay-post

 

In my own organization, the people I most frequently need to ping spend much time in meetings or on client calls that I would rather not interrupt, but it hinders my productivity too much to keep checking on when they will be available. If I send a message during their meeting anyway, there is too great a chance they will miss it.  If anyone else would find this useful, can you please make your voice heard?

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