Forum Discussion
Email notifications sent to myself on every comment
It would be really hand if we could:
1. Switch off emails to sent to self for commenting (and kept off my default).
2. Complete the integration with Teams where the notification appears in the activity.
Right now I'm getting email blindness to emails from Planner because I'm so used to deleting them as they are my own messages. This has meant I've started missing things from other people which isn't ideal.
paulwalsh Agree. I am not sure what purpose an email notification of one's own comment serves. The point in our organization switching to Teams was to reduce the number of unnecessary emails, and this always-on feature creates new, unnecessary emails.
More than a year since the first post and still no solution (that I can find).
I finally set up an Outlook rule that auto-trashes all email self-copies of my own replies on a task. Not elegant, but it works. I told the rest of my team and they immediately made the same rule in their own Outlook.
I may do the same for ALL task replies. I already get banner notifications of replies, and I'm in Teams a lot anyway, so I don't think I'll be missing anything. Easy to change if needed.
jaclynl, I agree completely. The flood of emails and settings "all over the place" for Planner, Teams, and Outlook is making Teams an embarassing non-starter. Teams gets the blame because it's the nexus of all our activity. Is this the right place to voice concern? No idea. I've spent enought time on this already and will see if emails from Planner can be blocked through mail flow or other draconian methods.