{"id":3451,"date":"2018-09-06T09:23:12","date_gmt":"2018-09-06T14:23:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lisa.rushworth.us\/?p=3451"},"modified":"2018-10-02T09:37:34","modified_gmt":"2018-10-02T14:37:34","slug":"microsoft-teams-e-mail-notifications","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rushworth.us\/lisa\/?p=3451","title":{"rendered":"Microsoft Teams: E-mail Notifications"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Click on your initials \/ picture in the upper right-hand corner of the screen and select \u201cSettings\u201d<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/lisa.rushworth.us\/?attachment_id=3452\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-3452\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-3452\" src=\"http:\/\/lisa.rushworth.us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/Teams01.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"411\" height=\"513\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.rushworth.us\/lisa\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/Teams01.png 411w, https:\/\/www.rushworth.us\/lisa\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/Teams01-240x300.png 240w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 411px) 100vw, 411px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Within the Settings pane, select \u201cNotifications\u201d<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/lisa.rushworth.us\/?attachment_id=3453\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-3453\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-3453\" src=\"http:\/\/lisa.rushworth.us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/Teams02.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"786\" height=\"470\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.rushworth.us\/lisa\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/Teams02.png 786w, https:\/\/www.rushworth.us\/lisa\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/Teams02-300x179.png 300w, https:\/\/www.rushworth.us\/lisa\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/Teams02-768x459.png 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 786px) 100vw, 786px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Change the \u201cFollowed Channels\u201d notification to \u201cBanner and email\u201d; change the frequency to \u201cAs soon as possible\u201d. Changes are saved as you make them. Use the \u201cX\u201d to close the Settings pane.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/lisa.rushworth.us\/?attachment_id=3454\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-3454\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-3454\" src=\"http:\/\/lisa.rushworth.us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/Teams03.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"778\" height=\"772\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.rushworth.us\/lisa\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/Teams03.png 778w, https:\/\/www.rushworth.us\/lisa\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/Teams03-150x150.png 150w, https:\/\/www.rushworth.us\/lisa\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/Teams03-300x298.png 300w, https:\/\/www.rushworth.us\/lisa\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/Teams03-768x762.png 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 778px) 100vw, 778px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>To receive e-mail notifications for a channel, follow it. Click the three dots to the right of the channel name.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/lisa.rushworth.us\/?attachment_id=3455\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-3455\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-3455\" src=\"http:\/\/lisa.rushworth.us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/Teams04.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"466\" height=\"426\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.rushworth.us\/lisa\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/Teams04.png 466w, https:\/\/www.rushworth.us\/lisa\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/Teams04-300x274.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 466px) 100vw, 466px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>And click \u201cFollow this channel\u201d. If you click the three dots again, you can elect to \u201cUnfollow this channel\u201d and cease receiving e-mail notifications for posts to the channel.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/lisa.rushworth.us\/?attachment_id=3456\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-3456\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-3456\" src=\"http:\/\/lisa.rushworth.us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/Teams05.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"502\" height=\"205\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.rushworth.us\/lisa\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/Teams05.png 502w, https:\/\/www.rushworth.us\/lisa\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/Teams05-300x123.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 502px) 100vw, 502px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>You have to do this for <em>each<\/em> channel \u2013 if someone spins up a new channel, you won\u2019t see notifications for <em>those<\/em> posts. I\u2019ve been posting to the \u201cGeneral\u201d thread whenever I break a discussion out into a new thread. This ensures anyone who wants e-mail notifications for the main thread at least <em>knows <\/em>there is a new thread that they may wish to follow.<\/p>\n<p>** Microsoft\u2019s algorithm for delivering e-mail notifications is a little \u2026 unique. Like most of these types of apps, an attempt is made to <strong>not<\/strong> deliver notifications for messages you\u2019ve already seen. At last test, Microsoft used a 90-minute timer (not quite my definition of \u201cASAP\u201d). If you have Teams open in a minimized web browser, if the notification went to your mobile client, if the notification went to your desktop client, if there were solar flares with peak flux over 10^(-5) W\/m^2 &#8230; an e-mail notification is not sent. Point being, don&#8217;t <em>rely<\/em> on the e-mail notifications.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Click on your initials \/ picture in the upper right-hand corner of the screen and select \u201cSettings\u201d Within the Settings pane, select \u201cNotifications\u201d Change the \u201cFollowed Channels\u201d notification to \u201cBanner and email\u201d; change the frequency to \u201cAs soon as possible\u201d. Changes are saved as you make them. Use the \u201cX\u201d to close the Settings pane. &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[666,667,665],"class_list":["post-3451","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-technology","tag-microsoft-teams","tag-slack","tag-teams"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rushworth.us\/lisa\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3451","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rushworth.us\/lisa\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rushworth.us\/lisa\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rushworth.us\/lisa\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rushworth.us\/lisa\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3451"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.rushworth.us\/lisa\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3451\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3460,"href":"https:\/\/www.rushworth.us\/lisa\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3451\/revisions\/3460"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rushworth.us\/lisa\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3451"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rushworth.us\/lisa\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3451"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rushworth.us\/lisa\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3451"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}