Emasculating Outlook

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JustaBloke

Hi
I wonder if anyone can help me in customising Outlook 2003 (or maybe you'll
tell me that OE will do a better job) to do one specific job.

I want a specific machine to do nothing more than sit on a broadband
connection listening to a single POP3 mailbox. When it recieves a message,
I want it to print it, sound a noise to alert people that it has and then
make a periodic 'beep' (like a mobile does when you've missed a txt) until
a key is pressed to tell it that someone is processing the message.

Can Outlook be customised in this way? Can any other e-mail client?

Many thanks in advance.
 
JustaBloke said:
I want a specific machine to do nothing more than sit on a broadband
connection listening to a single POP3 mailbox. When it recieves a
message, I want it to print it, sound a noise to alert people that it
has and then make a periodic 'beep' (like a mobile does when you've
missed a txt) until a key is pressed to tell it that someone is
processing the message.

Can Outlook be customised in this way? Can any other e-mail client?
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It strikes me that neither Outlook nor Outlook Express would be a good
candidate for this. A better candidate may be a mail client on a Unix
machine, like Pine. Perhaps sendmail, smail, or Eudora could be scripted to
do this.
 
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