# IMessage.delay property · @imqueue/core

Source: https://imqueue.org/api/core/latest/core.imessage.delay/
Published: 2026-08-04
Author: @imqueue maintainers (https://github.com/imqueue)
Package: @imqueue/core 3.3.2 — generated reference, not hand-written

> Warning: This API is now obsolete.
> 
> Inert, and always absent in practice — the Redis adapter never writes this field and never reads it. Delays are carried in the queue's delayed sorted set, not in the message envelope, so pass the delay to [IMessageQueue.send()](https://imqueue.org/api/core/latest/core.imessagequeue.send/) instead. Scheduled for removal in the next major.
> 

Intended delay in milliseconds.

**Signature:**

```typescript
delay?: number;
```