Automatically display incoming email

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Richard Lewis Haggard

How do I set things up so that incoming email gets displayed? What object
has to be created on Outlook startup? What event needs to be intercepted?
What function needs to be called to display the email?
 
Get displayed how? Surely you don't want 12 windows to pop up when you get 12 messages.

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Sue Mosher, Outlook MVP
Author of Configuring Microsoft Outlook 2003

and Microsoft Outlook Programming - Jumpstart for
Administrators, Power Users, and Developers
 
Sue -

Actually, I do. As much as a pain as it will be, this is the lesser of two
evils. I've set up rules to detect those messages that I care about and to
deposit them into a particular folder but I typically am very deep in coding
and don't notice the newly arrived message. Hundreds of messages go by each
day but I only care about only three or four of them. However, these 3 or 4
are very important to me and if I miss them or don't respond in a timely
fashion, Bad Things Happen and I get yelled at. At a previous contract
(which you were nice enough to help me with, Sue) and it worked great.
Unfortunately, I didn't make a record of what I did at the time and can't
remember how I did it. All I remember is

1) Declare some object
2) At start up, set up object to monitor a particular folder
3) Upon detection of new mail going into folder, call some function in some
object to display the email

Not much detail there! Would it be possible for you to remind me of the
details?
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Richard Lewis Haggard
www.Haggard-And-Associates.com
Get displayed how? Surely you don't want 12 windows to pop up when you get
12 messages.

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Sue Mosher, Outlook MVP
Author of Configuring Microsoft Outlook 2003

and Microsoft Outlook Programming - Jumpstart for
Administrators, Power Users, and Developers
 
I'd recommend that you just use a search folder or a rule to give you alerts.

See http://www.outlookcode.com/d/code/zaphtml.htm for ways to work with incoming messages. THe method to display a message is ... Display.

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Sue Mosher, Outlook MVP
Author of Configuring Microsoft Outlook 2003

and Microsoft Outlook Programming - Jumpstart for
Administrators, Power Users, and Developers
 
Thanks, Sue. for the past couple of weeks, I tried using Alerts but that
didn't meet my needs plus I find Alerts to be an amazingly irritating
feature. So, back to Plan A -

1) What object do I need to declare when the program starts?
2) How do I set up to monitor a folder?
3) How do I automatically display the newly arrived email?

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Richard Lewis Haggard
www.Haggard-And-Associates.com
I'd recommend that you just use a search folder or a rule to give you
alerts.

See http://www.outlookcode.com/d/code/zaphtml.htm for ways to work with
incoming messages. THe method to display a message is ... Display.

--
Sue Mosher, Outlook MVP
Author of Configuring Microsoft Outlook 2003

and Microsoft Outlook Programming - Jumpstart for
Administrators, Power Users, and Developers
 
Already answered in the 2nd sentence of my last post.
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Sue Mosher, Outlook MVP
Author of Configuring Microsoft Outlook 2003

and Microsoft Outlook Programming - Jumpstart for
Administrators, Power Users, and Developers
 
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