Verify your message was successfully sent

When you send a message, it first goes to a Zulip server, and then the Zulip server sends it out to all the recipients.

Sometimes there can be delays if your device is on a poor network connection. Zulip lets you know when your message successfully reaches the server.

Verify that a message reached the Zulip server

Look for a timestamp (like 4:53) on the right side of the message. If you see a timestamp, the message successfully reached the server.

You can see what a message without a timestamp looks like by disconnecting your computer from the internet, and sending a message.

When to resend

By default, Zulip will try to resend the message when it is re-connected to the internet.

If Zulip gives up (or if the Zulip server returns an error), it will add two red icons () to the right side of the message. If you don’t see the red icons, there is no need to resend.

If you do see the red icons, you can either

• Click resend () to attempt a resend.
• Click cancel () to delete the message.
• Reload the page to cancel all the messages with red icons.