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Is there a way to get email alert automatically?

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    Katy1234

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    I have just switched from netscape email to outlook express. Netscape email would show by my clock automatically to alert me to new email. With Outlook,it seems I have to go into the program first and click on Send/Receive to see if I have new email. Is there a setting somewhere to do this. I have looked everywhere I think,but nothing pertains to it. TIA
     
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    Hi Katy!

    In Outlook Express, click tools / options and find the send/receive boxes which should be ticked and the timing set acccording to Your preferences.

    An envelope appears next to the clock in OE too.

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    Katy1234

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    Christer,the boxes were already checked and the time was set for 2 min. But I still can't get the alert by the clock,only if I have the program open. Does IE have to be my default browser for the Outlook to automatically alert? Or do I have do just open the program and leave it open all day? Thanks for your quick response.
     
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    You can download a free utility, HideOE which will minimize Outlook Express to the system tray while leaving its mail-checking feature running.

    Just enable the email sound notification in Control Panel if you want that feature when new mail arrives.
     
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    Yes, to the best of my knowledge, You have to start OE and be connected to Your ISP.

    I don´t know what You mean by "default browser ". I think that You can have IE as well as Netscape installed and start the one that You´d like to use.
    You don´t have to start IE to use OE.

    I´ve never used Netscape and don´t understand how it can detect incoming E-mail without beeing started or have I missed the obvious?

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    Christer,I guess it could be because when I log onto the internet with Netscape,that maybe the email program opens automatically,since it is part of Netscape. Is IE and Outlook two different programs installed separately? All I know is,on netscape just being on the internet alerts me with an envelope by the clock without ever going into the mail program at all. Like I said this Outlook thing is new to me,so I haven't a clue. :D
     
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    Katy,
    when Windows is installed, IE and OE are part of the package. IE and OE are fairly integrated, as I understand it they share quite a few components but they are still separate programs which are started separately.
    After a bit of juggling, OE can be uninstalled if a different E-mail program is preferred.

    In Your most recent post, You mention Outlook. That is a different program to Outlook Express. It comes bundled with the Office suites and has further functions, more business oriented.

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    The only way I've ever found to get Outlook or Outlook Express to reside in the system tray (like Netscape's email program) is by using third-party software like the one here and here, although the one I linked to in my first post is free, the others are not.

    If you're running Outlook XP (not Outlook Express), there's a registry hack to minimize it to the tray on this page.
     
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