New Mail icon - can you stop it appearing?

[Alain Dekker]

Hi,

I've set up a number of rules to deal with spam coming in. They're proving
reasonably successful. However, what I would like to do is if the message
comes in and is picked up by one of my spam rules, I do not want the "New
mail" icon that appears in the tray to appear.

Is there any way to do this:
1) Check mail when it arrives;
2) <INSERT SPAM FILTER>
3) Yes its spma: Do not bring up the new mail icon

??

I tried the "Clear Message Flag" option but that didn't help.

Thanks in advance,
Alain

 

[Roady]

You can but it's that tricky that it's a "you can't".
For more info;
http://www.slipstick.com/dev/code/clearenvicon.htm

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[Alain Dekker]

Thanks. I've had quite a good look at that. I installed the AutoRead
application and it works (or at least one test did). I have some questions,
though, if you don't mind.

How did this get installe as a "Custom Action"?

I looked in the registry and found this entry:
[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Exchange\Client\Custom Actions]
"AutoRead"="4.0;C:\\Program Files\\TechHit.com\\AutoRead\\autoread.dll;1"

which I presume was how it was done. Right?

What language can the DLL be written in? Is it a VB DLL?
Was the code that you pointed me at (and in the downloadable .TXT file) the
same code that runs in the AutoRead application?

Sorry for all the questions!

Regards,
Alain

 

[Sue Mosher [MVP]]

Custom actions are written with C++ or Delphi and use the Extended MAPI library. In other words, not for the fainthearted
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