email alarm on 'snooze'

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It’s been a gradual thing, but the rate at which I receive the tone +
envelope email alert in systray
is decreasing every day.

Between 17:00 and 23:59 this evening only 18 out of 56 emails tripped
the switch. I haven’t
done anything to “Customize Notifications”.

I don’t know if it is odd or not since I haven’t tinkered in these parts
before, but in “Past”, only 1 of 3 email accounts appears in the
population at all. Which I guess means I can’t check “Always Show” for
the other accounts since there is no entry for them.

I entered “email alert” and “Thunderbird email alert” in Search; but no
show.

Please advise,
 
rooster said:
It’s been a gradual thing, but the rate at which I receive the tone +
envelope email alert in systray
is decreasing every day.

Between 17:00 and 23:59 this evening only 18 out of 56 emails tripped
the switch. I haven’t
done anything to “Customize Notificationsâ€.

I don’t know if it is odd or not since I haven’t tinkered in these parts
before, but in “Pastâ€, only 1 of 3 email accounts appears in the
population at all. Which I guess means I can’t check “Always Show†for
the other accounts since there is no entry for them.

I entered “email alert†and “Thunderbird email alert†in Search; but no
show.
Click to expand...

Since you refer to "Thunderbird" I assume that's the email program you are
using. This program isn't part of Windows XP and this isn't a Windows
issue. For help with Thunderbird, you should look on T-bird's website and
also there are very active T-bird user forums. Here are a few links:

http://www.mozilla.org/support/thunderbird/
http://forums.mozillazine.org/viewforum.php?f=39

Malke
 
Hi Malke;

Re: T-Bird

I posted to the T-Bird Forum before I posted here. Their response is:


"It actually is controlled by Windows which gets it from the default
email client. So, yes, any problems with it are because of Windows."


Sorry for the lack of op-info in my origingal post; it didn't copy over
from MS Word where I composed the post... it was late; I was sleepy; I
slipped up. Here it is:

Windows XP-Home (OEM emachines T2893)
Firefox (1.5.0.5) (Default)
Thunderbird (1.5.0.5) (Default)
*IE/OE SP2,
*Netscape,
*Opera
Ad-Aware SE Personal v 1.06
Spybot S&D 1.4
SpywareBlaster v3.4
WinPatrol
AVG Free Edition 7.1.394
Ewido 4.0
Kerio Personal 2.1.4
BigFix 2.0.2.3
 
rooster said:
Hi Malke;

Re: T-Bird

I posted to the T-Bird Forum before I posted here. Their response is:


"It actually is controlled by Windows which gets it from the default
email client. So, yes, any problems with it are because of Windows."


Sorry for the lack of op-info in my origingal post; it didn't copy over
from MS Word where I composed the post... it was late; I was sleepy; I
slipped up. Here it is:

Windows XP-Home (OEM emachines T2893)
Firefox (1.5.0.5) (Default)
Thunderbird (1.5.0.5) (Default)
*IE/OE SP2,
*Netscape,
*Opera
Ad-Aware SE Personal v 1.06
Spybot S&D 1.4
SpywareBlaster v3.4
WinPatrol
AVG Free Edition 7.1.394
Ewido 4.0
Kerio Personal 2.1.4
BigFix 2.0.2.3
Click to expand...

Does your sound work OK in other apps? So you are saying that T-Bird gets
its new mail notification sound from the Windows sound? If this is the
case, try a different sound for the New Mail Notification. Or see:

"Where did my sounds go?" MVP Kelly Theriot
http://www.kellys-korner-xp.com/top10faqs.htm

Malke
 
You have NON Microsoft Products installed, Remove them Right Now!
(They are watching you)
 
Malke;

I finally figured it out. Like 95% of all internet issues, spam caused
the ‘problem’.

The simple answer is: “The Bird” parses/filters incoming email from
account Inboxes and then billets spam to the account “Junk” Folder. The
Junk Folder isn’t ‘scanned’ by XP-Home for unopened email; so the alert
doesn't appear if all you have is spam.

What I was observing, what was confusing me, was that occasionally, spam
does trip the alert. IF a big gob of it arrives of a sudden and is still
in the Inbox for a couple of msecs while T-Bird is doing the
analysis/filtering, Windows ‘smells’ it and “alerts”.

I was seeing the phenomenon from the wrong end of the telescope. Windows
wasn’t underreporting email (on “snooze”) it was occasionally
overreporting. Because the account I was remarking in this query began
to get a lot of spam recently, the numbers made it appear as if there
was a significant error rate when in fact there was not. I mistook the
exceptions for the norm; … sort of like getting up ‘without’ having hit
the “snooze alarm” a couple of times.
 
rooster said:
Malke;

I finally figured it out. Like 95% of all internet issues, spam caused
the ‘problem’.

The simple answer is: “The Bird†parses/filters incoming email from
account Inboxes and then billets spam to the account “Junk†Folder. The
Junk Folder isn’t ‘scanned’ by XP-Home for unopened email; so the alert
doesn't appear if all you have is spam.

What I was observing, what was confusing me, was that occasionally, spam
does trip the alert. IF a big gob of it arrives of a sudden and is still
in the Inbox for a couple of msecs while T-Bird is doing the
analysis/filtering, Windows ‘smells’ it and “alertsâ€.

I was seeing the phenomenon from the wrong end of the telescope. Windows
wasn’t underreporting email (on “snoozeâ€) it was occasionally
overreporting. Because the account I was remarking in this query began
to get a lot of spam recently, the numbers made it appear as if there
was a significant error rate when in fact there was not. I mistook the
exceptions for the norm; … sort of like getting up ‘without’ having hit
the “snooze alarm†a couple of times.
Click to expand...

I'm glad you got this sorted. Thanks for taking the time to post the
solution. I use T-bird for my mail and I love its Junk handling, but I
don't have it make a sound when mail arrives, and I'm not on Windows so I
wouldn't have guessed that answer ever.

Very interesting.

Take care and thanks again for posting,

Malke
 
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