Can Outlook Connector mail notifications be disabled?

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Milhouse Van Houten

I use Hotmail with POP3 in OL2007 but like to use the built-in HTTP support
as well so that I can peek in on my Hotmail-based Junk Mail folder from time
to time.

Since the old-style HTTP account access is about to go away, I switched to
Connector, but am confused by it.

It seems to want to notify me of new mail, which means I'm notified twice:
once by it when mail hits Hotmail, and once when mail is retrieved by POP3.
Since I operate upon downloaded mail and don't really want to use
Connector's IMAP-style access (except for Junk, as mentioned), I need to
know how to tell Connector not to notify me, just like its ancestor used to
do. It looks like there's essentially no configurability to it, however.

Thanks
 
An Outlook Connector account will only sound an alert if its delivery
location is set as the default storage folder in Outlook.
You can change that via File-> Data File Management...
 
Interesting, but my POP3 account was and is the default. It's also unchecked
in Send/Receive.

The type of alert I'm getting today from the Connector is audible. Last
night, it popped up the toast too, but either way I'd like to suppress it.
 
Correction: it's the toast and sound together, as usual. The reason I
wasn't getting the toast today was because of the maddening SP2 bug where
sometimes you have to start Outlook a second time for notifications to work
at all.
 
You default account has nothing to do with the default delivery location.
What is the default for that?
Which folder set holds the Outlook Today screen?
 
My default delivery location is a PST file, on my data drive, for my default
POP3 account. It's also listed as the default data file.

All that is shown for my Connector file in terms of a location is "Not
available." That's apparently normal:
http://blogs.howtogeek.com/mysticgeek/files/2008/10/24.png

However, the OST for it is located in the expected place:
Appdata/Local/Microsoft/Outlook section of my profile.

I expected Connector to have more configuration, but there's essentially
nothing to it.
 
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