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From: John on 12 May 2010 16:45 Is there a way to minimize Outlook 2007 by clicking on the X button?
From: dlw on 12 May 2010 17:34 you mean "close" it but still have it notify you of new mail? No, but there are 3rd party applications that do that. "John" wrote: > Is there a way to minimize Outlook 2007 by clicking on the X button? > . >
From: John on 12 May 2010 19:23 On Wed, 12 May 2010 14:34:02 -0700, dlw wrote: > you mean "close" it but still have it notify you of new mail? No, but there > are 3rd party applications that do that. > > "John" wrote: > >> Is there a way to minimize Outlook 2007 by clicking on the X button? >> . >> Would you have a link for these applications please?
From: VanguardLH on 12 May 2010 20:15 John wrote: > dlw wrote: > >> John wrote: >> >>> Is there a way to minimize Outlook 2007 by clicking on the X button? >> >> you mean "close" it but still have it notify you of new mail? No, >> but there are 3rd party applications that do that. > > Would you have a link for these applications please? PopTray Magic Mail Monitor and many others found via Google, like: http://www.google.com/search?q=%2Bfree+%2Be-mail+monitor You could also search at common download sites, like: http://www.download.com/ http://www.softpedia.com/ Be aware that most e-mail monitors only work with POP. You didn't mention what type of e-mail accounts you use (POP, IMAP, HTTP/Deltasync, or Exchange). Also be aware that most of these e-mail monitors will consume as much memory, if not more, than does Outlook. When Outlook is minimized to a system tray, it relinquishes the GUI resources it needs to paint its window. This means the resident process for outlook.exe becomes small. You can see the memory footprint change in Task Manager's Processes tab when you open the Outlook window and when you minimize it to a tray icon. Some e-mail monitors do not relinquish their GUI resources so they are just as big in memory whether their window is displayed or not. In fact, some e-mail monitors consume more memory than does Outlook when Outlook's window is displayed. So you really don't end up saving on any resources by closing Outlook and using an e-mail monitor in its place. Some e-mail monitors, like the ones that I mentioned above, let you define rules. You can equate some if not most or all of your Outlook rules to those you can define inside these e-mail monitors. However, most e-mail monitors are fairly simplistic and you get no means of filtering your incoming e-mails. The only advantage that I've found in using an e-mail monitor over leaving Outlook minimized to a tray icon is eliminating the bogus errors that Outlook generates. POP only has 2 statuses: +OK and -ERR. Any comments the server sends back with the status are non-standard strings and cannot be used to test the result of a command sent by the client to the server. So when the server fails to establish a mail session, times out, or has other problems, all it can send back (if it sends anything) is the single -ERR code. During a mail establishment, Outlook only knows it got back an -ERR code and so it reports (often wrongly) that your login failed. All Outlook knows is that the server failed to establish a mail session but not really why. Alas, Outlook has no option to hide its error messages. When the login fails, Outlook shoves a popup on the screen telling you of the failure. However, if you are polling your account every 10 minutes for a total of 144 mail polls per day, you probably don't care if you missed a couple mail polls. This is why I don't bother using Outlook to connect to my Hotmail accounts via POP (or their Connector) because Hotmail is not a reliable enough service to eliminate seeing these bogus prompts (I use my Gmail account to poll my Hotmail accounts because I don't have login failures with Gmail). Using an e-mail monitor often helps to eliminate the noise because some of them have an option to NOT show failed logins. This is not as bad a problem as I make it sound but getting one or two prompts about a failed login (due to server-side problems over which I have no control) over a couple days is too much a nuisance for me to keep closing those bogus prompt windows.
From: Michael Bauer [MVP - Outlook] on 13 May 2010 06:25
Please see OLKeeper here, which does exactly what you're asking for: http://www.vboffice.net/product.html?lang=en -- Best regards Michael Bauer - MVP Outlook Category Manager - Manage and share your categories: SAM - The Sending Account Manager: <http://www.vboffice.net/product.html?lang=en> Am Thu, 13 May 2010 08:45:33 +1200 schrieb John: > Is there a way to minimize Outlook 2007 by clicking on the X button? |