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Not receiving Planner comments in Outlook inbox
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Microsoft
Hi everyone - the article linked by kombaiah Murugan is accurate in describing the expected behavior for comments. Every task comments always triggers a mail to the group mailbox, and one of the top complaints we received from customers was how Planner comment emails would also appear in their personal inboxes, creating unwanted clutter. This was because these users were following the group, using the group like a DG for team communications and task comments weren't relevant to them. Since unfollowing the group wasn't an option, the ask was to stop sending comment emails to users' inboxes.
Our change prevents task comment emails from appearing in personal inboxes, even if you are following the group, however all task comments will continue to be sent to the group mailbox.
HustleFlow If you had the ability to @ mention someone in the comments (triggering a notification directly to the person) - would that solve your scenario around asking for updates?
For others on the thread, was there a specific use case you wanted to achieve by having all task comments going into every team member's personal inbox? We received a lot of feedback that most tasks were only relevant to 1 or 2 people and having the entire team get a comment email in their inbox was too broad an audience and intrusive for those who didn't care about the task.
It's unfortunate that our change impacted your scenarios, and I thank you for the feedback. Understanding how you used this feature with your team will help us figure out how to improve so we can enable your scenarios while ensuring we minimize the noise for those who didn't want comment emails in their inbox.
Hello:
Are there any new updates on this? As a few people have said previously, it does not make sense that a person/people assigned to tasks need to first comment on the tasks before they will get notifications of comments in their inbox. I can understand applying that settings to members of the group who are not assigned to the task, but the task owner and assignee should get all notifications, unless they expressly turn them off.
Also are there any updates for using "@" mentions in tasks comments? This would be a very helpful feature.
My company is in the process of adopting teams, and I know this comment issue is one of the things that's gonna make them question planner/teams again...
chtranMSFT I chime in with others. We really need the owner/assignee to get all notifications.
jackfight wrote:Are there any new updates on this? As a few people have said previously, it does not make sense that a person/people assigned to tasks need to first comment on the tasks before they will get notifications of comments in their inbox. I can understand applying that settings to members of the group who are not assigned to the task, but the task owner and assignee should get all notifications, unless they expressly turn them off.
