Outlook 2003 New Mail Notification

[Art Johnson]

When I first launch Outlook 2003, it retrieves my E-Mail
but does not play the New Mail Notification sound. After
it's launched, it will play the New Mail Notification
sound as new mail comes in. What's the problem?

Thanks

 

[Milly Staples [MVP - Outlook]]

There is no problem. It is by design. When you first poll for mail on
startup, you expect to get mail. However, when you are doing other things
while Outlook is open, it is designed to notify you that you have mail when
you may NOT be expecting it.

--
Milly Staples [MVP - Outlook]

Post all replies to the group to keep the discussion intact. Due to
the (insert latest virus name here) virus, all mail sent to my personal
account will be deleted without reading.

After searching google.groups.com and finding no answer, Art Johnson asked:

| When I first launch Outlook 2003, it retrieves my E-Mail
| but does not play the New Mail Notification sound. After
| it's launched, it will play the New Mail Notification
| sound as new mail comes in. What's the problem?
|
| Thanks

 

[Guest]

Milly, thanks for you response. I just installed Outlook
2003 and was previously using Outlook Express 6. OE6
would play the New Mail Notification sound when it was
launched. Sometimes I would start OE6 and switch to
something else. In that case, I still want to be
notified. Technically speaking, the New Mail Notification
sound should be played whenever new mail arrives. Period.
Just my opinion.

 

[Milly Staples [MVP - Outlook]]

I agree to a degree, but if you are on a help desk and get hundreds of
messages each day by email, you would soon be climbing the walls. The new
mail notification sound will only play once every 5 minutes, even if you get
mail every 30 seconds.

--
Milly Staples [MVP - Outlook]

Post all replies to the group to keep the discussion intact. Due to
the (insert latest virus name here) virus, all mail sent to my personal
account will be deleted without reading.

After searching google.groups.com and finding no answer,
(e-mail address removed) asked:

| Milly, thanks for you response. I just installed Outlook
| 2003 and was previously using Outlook Express 6. OE6
| would play the New Mail Notification sound when it was
| launched. Sometimes I would start OE6 and switch to
| something else. In that case, I still want to be
| notified. Technically speaking, the New Mail Notification
| sound should be played whenever new mail arrives. Period.
| Just my opinion.
|
|
|| -----Original Message-----
|| There is no problem. It is by design. When you first poll for mail
|| on startup, you expect to get mail. However, when you are doing
|| other things while Outlook is open, it is designed to notify you
|| that you have mail when you may NOT be expecting it.
||
|| --
|| Milly Staples [MVP - Outlook]
||
|| Post all replies to the group to keep the discussion intact. Due to
|| the (insert latest virus name here) virus, all mail sent to my
|| personal account will be deleted without reading.
||
|| After searching google.groups.com and finding no answer, Art Johnson
|| asked:
||
||| When I first launch Outlook 2003, it retrieves my E-Mail
||| but does not play the New Mail Notification sound. After
||| it's launched, it will play the New Mail Notification
||| sound as new mail comes in. What's the problem?
|||
||| Thanks
||
||
|| .

 

[maxhodges]

if you are on a help desk and get hundreds of

messages each day by email, you would soon be climbing the walls.

Not if the sound is "chaching.wav" and it's playing because you just
got a Paypal "Notification of Payment Received" message.

Max Hodges
White Rabbit Press
www.whiterabbitpress.us

I agree to a degree, but if you are on a help desk and get hundreds of
messages each day by email, you would soon be climbing the walls. The new
mail notification sound will only play once every 5 minutes, even if you get
mail every 30 seconds.

--
Milly Staples [MVP - Outlook]

Post all replies to the group to keep the discussion intact. Due to
the (insert latest virus name here) virus, all mail sent to my personal
account will be deleted without reading.

After searching google.groups.com and finding no answer,
(e-mail address removed) asked:

| Milly, thanks for you response. I just installed Outlook
| 2003 and was previously using Outlook Express 6. OE6
| would play the New Mail Notification sound when it was
| launched. Sometimes I would start OE6 and switch to
| something else. In that case, I still want to be
| notified. Technically speaking, the New Mail Notification
| sound should be played whenever new mail arrives. Period.
| Just my opinion.
|
|
|| -----Original Message-----
|| There is no problem. It is by design. When you first poll for mail
|| on startup, you expect to get mail. However, when you are doing
|| other things while Outlook is open, it is designed to notify you
|| that you have mail when you may NOT be expecting it.
||
|| --
|| Milly Staples [MVP - Outlook]
||
|| Post all replies to the group to keep the discussion intact. Due to
|| the (insert latest virus name here) virus, all mail sent to my
|| personal account will be deleted without reading.
||
|| After searching google.groups.com and finding no answer, Art Johnson
|| asked:
||
||| When I first launch Outlook 2003, it retrieves my E-Mail
||| but does not play the New Mail Notification sound. After
||| it's launched, it will play the New Mail Notification
||| sound as new mail comes in. What's the problem?
|||
||| Thanks
||
||
|| .