Can you make the 'new mail' alert last longer than 30 seconds?

[Guest]

I'm running Windows XP Professional at work. Outlook only allows a maximum
of 30 seconds for the 'new mail' message to appear on the desktop before it's
ghostlike disappearing act. If I'm not around to catch it appear on the
desktop, there's no other provision to let you know there's something new in
the Inbox.
Is there an upgrade to Outlook to lengthen the alert time
to...say......until you open the new e-mail? Please let me know if there is,
or maybe even another way of setting this feature for longer than 30 seconds.
Thank you much!


Denis

 

[Guest]

You cant make it last longer than 30 seconds to my knowledge but there is a
new item notification thats shows a new message in the system tray..its a
envelope near the time clock

 

[Brian Tillman]

OUTLOOK 'NEW MAIL' ALERT SETTING <OUTLOOK 'NEW MAIL' ALERT

I'm running Windows XP Professional at work. Outlook only allows a
maximum of 30 seconds for the 'new mail' message to appear on the
desktop before it's ghostlike disappearing act. If I'm not around to
catch it appear on the desktop, there's no other provision to let you
know there's something new in the Inbox.
Is there an upgrade to Outlook to lengthen the alert time
to...say......until you open the new e-mail? Please let me know if
there is, or maybe even another way of setting this feature for
longer than 30 seconds.

You can make it last up to about 50 days, if you want. See this:
http://www.howto-outlook.com/howto/mailalert2003.htm#permanent_alert