Haha, yeah, create your own mail client just for that? Receiving mail is
one, managing it, responding to it etc... is a whole different thing which
adds a lot to the complexity. Let alone troubleshooting an exotic mail
client. It would be a fun hobby project but (no offense) you'll be laughed
out of the building in the corporate world.
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Robert Sparnaaij [MVP-Outlook]
Coauthor, Configuring Microsoft Outlook 2003
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"F.H. Muffman" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
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> Roady [MVP] wrote:
>>> I'm trying to set something up on a shared e-mail account to ensure
>>> that an e-mail can only be opened if there are no earlier-receive
>>> e-mails
>>> still unopened. Have had a look, but can't see any of the tools
>>> available which would enable me to do this - anyone have any
>>> suggestions?
>>
>> Nope, but you could achieve that with some VBA. I'm not sure what you
>> are trying to achieve with this but realise that you can easily work
>> around it by just marking all messages as Read in one go.
>
> Or by hiring someone to build a client from scratch (which isn't as hard
> as it sounds, you only need IMAP functionality.. well, and probably smtp).
> =)
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