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Our company uses Outlooks built-in junk email filtering. We find it does
quite a nice job. The problem is this; when junk email comes in and is
places in the Junk Mail folder, Outlook still pops up the new mail envelope
in the notification area. This causes someone working away at their
workstation to check their mail, only to find there is no new "real" mail,
just a junk email or two. Throughout the course of the workday, this can
waste a lot of productivity.
How can one make Outlook not pop up that little notification envelope near
the clock when the only new message arrivals are Junk? Outlook recognizes
them as junk already (hence it put them in the Junk folder) so you would
think it would be trivial to stop the envelope.
What I have tried so far are VBA macros. I set a macro to immediately mark
anything incoming in the Junk Mail folder as "read". Unfortunately this did
not remove the notification area envelope.
Is their an event I can tap into for that notification area envelope that
will check if there are any unread messages in the inbox, and if not, remove
the envelope? Or is there some option I have just not found yet to enable
this functionality?
It doesn't seem to make sense. Why would one want to be notified every time
a junk message appears? Most would rather sift through the junk at the end
of the day looking for any false positives then just delete them all in one
fell swoop instead of every time a new one arrives.
Thank you.
quite a nice job. The problem is this; when junk email comes in and is
places in the Junk Mail folder, Outlook still pops up the new mail envelope
in the notification area. This causes someone working away at their
workstation to check their mail, only to find there is no new "real" mail,
just a junk email or two. Throughout the course of the workday, this can
waste a lot of productivity.
How can one make Outlook not pop up that little notification envelope near
the clock when the only new message arrivals are Junk? Outlook recognizes
them as junk already (hence it put them in the Junk folder) so you would
think it would be trivial to stop the envelope.
What I have tried so far are VBA macros. I set a macro to immediately mark
anything incoming in the Junk Mail folder as "read". Unfortunately this did
not remove the notification area envelope.
Is their an event I can tap into for that notification area envelope that
will check if there are any unread messages in the inbox, and if not, remove
the envelope? Or is there some option I have just not found yet to enable
this functionality?
It doesn't seem to make sense. Why would one want to be notified every time
a junk message appears? Most would rather sift through the junk at the end
of the day looking for any false positives then just delete them all in one
fell swoop instead of every time a new one arrives.
Thank you.