Can Outlook Connector mail notifications be disabled?

[Milhouse Van Houten]

I use Hotmail with POP3 in OL2007 but like to use the built-in HTTP support
as well so that I can peek in on my Hotmail-based Junk Mail folder from time
to time.

Since the old-style HTTP account access is about to go away, I switched to
Connector, but am confused by it.

It seems to want to notify me of new mail, which means I'm notified twice:
once by it when mail hits Hotmail, and once when mail is retrieved by POP3.
Since I operate upon downloaded mail and don't really want to use
Connector's IMAP-style access (except for Junk, as mentioned), I need to
know how to tell Connector not to notify me, just like its ancestor used to
do. It looks like there's essentially no configurability to it, however.

Thanks

 

[Roady [MVP]]

An Outlook Connector account will only sound an alert if its delivery
location is set as the default storage folder in Outlook.
You can change that via File-> Data File Management...

 

[Milhouse Van Houten]

Interesting, but my POP3 account was and is the default. It's also unchecked
in Send/Receive.

The type of alert I'm getting today from the Connector is audible. Last
night, it popped up the toast too, but either way I'd like to suppress it.

 

[Milhouse Van Houten]

Correction: it's the toast and sound together, as usual. The reason I
wasn't getting the toast today was because of the maddening SP2 bug where
sometimes you have to start Outlook a second time for notifications to work
at all.

 

[Roady [MVP]]

You default account has nothing to do with the default delivery location.
What is the default for that?
Which folder set holds the Outlook Today screen?

 

[Milhouse Van Houten]

My default delivery location is a PST file, on my data drive, for my default
POP3 account. It's also listed as the default data file.

All that is shown for my Connector file in terms of a location is "Not
available." That's apparently normal:
http://blogs.howtogeek.com/mysticgeek/files/2008/10/24.png

However, the OST for it is located in the expected place:
Appdata/Local/Microsoft/Outlook section of my profile.

I expected Connector to have more configuration, but there's essentially
nothing to it.