Microsoft Teams
Microsoft Teams email integration
Forward an email to ForwardThis and a clean message goes into the Microsoft Teams channel from your instructions, in the team from your instructions, instead of a wall of forwarded text. It can message a person directly too.
Setup in 30 seconds.
How it works
Connect Microsoft Teams
Create a free account and connect Microsoft Teams. It takes about 30 seconds, and you only do it once.
Forward an email
Forward any email to your ForwardThis address along with your instructions. One email can ask for several things at once.
Done.
ForwardThis replies when it's done, with a short summary and links to what it made. Microsoft Teams has no way to take these back, so anything that cannot be reversed is shown to you first.
Just forward it
to do@forwardthis.io
Fwd: Q4 campaign brief - revised costs
Post this in General in the Marketing team, and add a task in Todoist for me to send the revised figures by Friday.
---------- Forwarded message ----------
The client has signed off the creative but wants the media spend down to £42,000. Can we get revised figures over before the weekend?
Posted to General (Marketing)
Q4 campaign brief - revised costs
Added a task
Send Northgate revised figures · due Friday
ForwardThis checks with you before it posts. It cannot be undone afterwards.
Some other examples
- “Post the client's answer in Delivery in the Projects team.”
- “What has anyone said in General in the Marketing team about the launch date?”
- “Put this in Support in the Ops team with a note that it came from the customer.”
Everything ForwardThis can do in Microsoft Teams
Send message
Post to a Teams channel or message a person
Search messages
Search your Teams messages
Read a record
Read a channel thread with its replies
Create project
Create a channel in a team
Try it with a real email.
Forward any email to the address below to see what ForwardThis can do. No signup required.
Occasional product emails may follow.
Why you need ForwardThis
Email is messy, every message asking for something different. It means constantly leaving your inbox and juggling tabs. ForwardThis skips all of that: forward an email along with some simple instructions, and it’s handled. Compatible with every email provider, and it works across the apps you’re already using.
Questions
- How does the Microsoft Teams email integration work?
- In Microsoft Teams the email is posted to a named channel in a named team, never to a chat or a direct message, and if the team has no channel by that name ForwardThis comes back with your real list rather than guessing; because a message the team has read cannot be unsent, it shows you the team, the channel and the exact message first. Forward the email to your ForwardThis address with a simple instruction, like "post this in General in the Marketing team". Say yes and it posts it and replies to confirm. The first time, you'll need a free account with Microsoft Teams connected, which takes about 30 seconds, and that's the entire Microsoft Teams email integration. Posting an email to Microsoft Teams has a page of its own.
- Can I forward an email straight to a Teams channel?
- Yes. Name the channel and the team in your instructions and that's where it goes. If the team doesn't have a channel by that name, or you didn't say which team, it comes back and asks with your real list rather than guessing. Nothing is ever posted without you saying yes first, because a message the team has read cannot be unsent.
- Can it send a Teams chat or a direct message?
- No. It posts in channels only. Direct messages and group chats are left out on purpose: they need a chat to be created before anything can be sent, which is a bigger decision than a forwarded email should be making.
- Can it read a channel as well as post to it?
- Yes, one named channel at a time. Ask what a channel has been saying, optionally about a particular word, and the recent messages come back to you by email as author, message and time. Teams has no way to search messages, so it filters the recent traffic of the channel from your instructions, and the answer tells you which channel it looked in rather than pretending it searched everything.
- How is this different from a channel's own email address?
- Teams can give a channel its own address, and anything you send there lands in that one channel as a raw forwarded email. That is genuinely simpler if one channel is all you ever need. ForwardThis uses one address for every channel and every team, posts a clean message to whichever one your instructions give, and can do the follow-up work in your other apps in the same email.