Adding a remider to a message does NOT trigger the alert later

[Werner]

Hi,

Very often, when i add a reminder to a message i received and i need make a
followup later, i expect that it would popup me a message when the time of
the remider arrives, like it does with other reminders what i set/add
directly to the callendar.

After i add the reminder to a message, when i come back later, and click on
the message, there is a gray header message saying that this message has a
reminder set for "doing xxx, on time x.x"

I'm doing something wrong? Is there some special requirement that this works?

I'm using winXP sp2 + ms office outlook 2003 sp2.

Up to now, i could not get a pattern on why it sometimes (very few) the
reminder works as expected (showing a POPup alerting me when its time), and
most of the times it simply does nothing.

Thanks for any sugestion, tip.
Regards
werner

 

[Ken Slovak - [MVP - Outlook]]

Is the email with the reminder in Inbox? Without 3rd party software it would
only turn red in a folder view if it's in a folder such as Sent Items.

 

[Werner]

Hi Ken,
Thanks for your replay,

Answering, sometimes it´s on inbox, but mostly the messages in other
folders.
If it doesn't triger an popup alert message, i can't really understand why
and/or for what it could be usefull having the ability to add a remider in
the future with a follow up flag.
If i understood correctly what you said, i sould add a remider with a
specific color flag to a message, and this message would appear in the
"follow up folder" only at the specified time. but on my test's even if i put
a remider with follow up flag to days or hours in the future, the message
appears imediatly in the follow up folder, and i continue not receiving any
"so much wanted and expected" alert popup to remind me to dedicate some
attention to a specific message.

Regards
W

 

[Ken Slovak - [MVP - Outlook]]

Any flagged item, with or without a reminder, will appear in that search
folder.

Outlook only fires reminders from Inbox, Calendar, Contacts and Tasks. In
all other folders the reminder items just turn red. That's why I wrote my
reminder addins, lots of requests for reminders from other folders.

 

[Werner]

Ken,
Thanks, now i understood what you. And i teste, and if the message was in
the inbox, the popup did appear correctly.
Anyway, to MS, i can´t understand why i can set a reminder on messages in
other folders, but caN'T use them. If they don't work in other folders they
should be disabled when i try to set them.
Thaks for you help, and i'll take a look at your addons.
Regards.
w

 

[Yogi]

Hi,

I don't get reminder even if item (with flag set for reminder) are in Inbox.
What settings I need to do?