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How to receive email reactions immediately

Anonymous
2024-03-14T12:52:16+00:00

I find using an emoji to respond to certain emails sufficient a few times per day, and my colleagues are making more and more use of the feature. I only receive an email notification of a reaction about 24 hours after a coworker reacts, though, which can cause communication gaps. How can I cause reactions to immediately generate an email?

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  1. Anonymous
    2024-08-02T18:25:01+00:00

    The reactions are therefore useless by design, i am sorry to say. The whole point of a reaction is to be instantaneous and move the task off.

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  3. Anonymous
    2024-05-15T17:10:03+00:00

    GOOD NEWS! Now that I've updated to the NEW OUTLOOK, I receive real-time emoticon responses in notification popups. That is very helpful.

    I also still receive the daily digest of reactions in an email.

    Big feature improvement, Microsoft! One of many that make the switch to New Outlook well worth the retraining.

    Thanks,

    Mihal

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  4. Anonymous
    2024-10-03T23:55:45+00:00

    So I came here to find an answer for this as I too got an email 24 hours after a reaction to my email occurred. I googled it and one of the first Microsoft help articles displayed but it is missing a step. You need to click the drop down arrow at Mail and then reactions displays. I don't understand why Microsoft would design it so that if Mail is turned on Reactions is off. I had to manually turn it on and save for it to work. Now to turn off the email sent the next day...if only Microsoft built better products and their updates were actually improvements!!!

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  5. Anonymous
    2025-02-27T13:54:45+00:00

    Your post answers the question quickly and sufficiently. THANK YOU for just saying NO in a clear way.

    However, the delay makes reactions useless.

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