Outlook 2003 E-mail Notification

[Marcus Barnes]

I almost had it last time, but this time I really have
it. The alerts are totally annoying, so I dug a little
deeper and found that one of the options on the Select
action(s) portion of the Rules Wizard is "display a
Desktop Alert". Place a checkmark in the checkbox and
save the rule. Now any e-mail processed by the rule will
also display an e-mail notification just like e-mail that
goes into the default Inbox. Boy am I glad I found this.
I was about to be totally ticked off at Microsoft. In
retrospect, they increased the functionality in an
unexpected way by doing this, and I'm glad to have it.

 

[Scott Abel]

I almost had it last time, but this time I really have
it. The alerts are totally annoying, so I dug a little
deeper and found that one of the options on the Select
action(s) portion of the Rules Wizard is "display a
Desktop Alert". Place a checkmark in the checkbox and
save the rule. Now any e-mail processed by the rule will
also display an e-mail notification just like e-mail that
goes into the default Inbox. Boy am I glad I found this.
I was about to be totally ticked off at Microsoft. In
retrospect, they increased the functionality in an
unexpected way by doing this, and I'm glad to have it.

This however changes your rule to "Client Only". Therefore, when you
close outlook all your email gets dumped into your inbox. Not what I
had in mind. I also like to get notifications on my taskbar whenever
a new message arrives (not only in the inbox).

This doesn't seem promising to me.