It’s a pain in the butt to have to check for email when you’re into, say, Texas hold 'em online.
I’ve Googled but have no idea if one’s any better or worse than the other. Does anyone have positive experience with such an add-on?
You need more than that stylized “ding-dong” noise and the envelope icon that pops up in the lower-right corner of your screen, plus the option of having your cursor change to an envelope for a second or so?
No, just an alert of some kind.
What he means is that Outlook already provides a notification system - you just need to turn it on. You don’t need to get a third-party solution for it. I think it’s in Tools/Options somewhere, or look in Help.
Well, mine doesn’t do any of that. And this is the reason I want to get an e-mail announcer.
Some time back, I went into the program and set it to make an audio incoming-email alert. But the only sound it makes occurs when it is downloading incoming emails, after I have manually asked for them. And that sound is flimsy as hell. I think it comes when the program asks if I want to read my incoming mail.
After you’ve manually asked for them? What happens if you set Outlook to hit up your mail server every x minutes?
And, in Control Panel, you can change the sound. Look for one called New Mail Notification - it’s probably set as “notify.wav” - you can change it to anything you want. \Program Files\WindowsNT\Pinball has quite a few noises, some of which are distinctly more attention-getting than that breathy doorbell sound.
Well, I would guess that you don’t have it set up right then, or your Outlook software is corrupted, or you are doing something else wrong.
When you say, “I went into the program and set it to make an audio incoming-email alert. But the only sound it makes occurs when it is downloading incoming emails, after I have manually asked for them” - what do you mean? Are you POP3-ing your mail? Obviously the program cannot make a notification sound the second mail comes into your POP3 server if you are manually (not automatically) popping your mail. It can only make the sound when you actually do the pop.
Perhaps I am not understanding your setup.
Thanks for your advice. I guess I’ll just hobble along as is.