Mail Notification

[mergz]

I currently use Office for Mac (Home and Student Edition). When I get an e-mail (and Entourage is open but I am not working in the program), an envelope shows on the Entourage "e" in the Dock letting me know that I have mail. This is better for me than a pop-up notification because the pop-up notification goes away quickly and I won't see it if I am not looking at the screen at that moment.

I have played around with Office for Mac 2008 on my son's computer. It appears that the envelope of the Dock notification is no longer available.

Is this correct? Is there any solution (other than to not buy Office for Mac 2008)?

Many thanks.

 

[Michel Bintener]

I currently use Office for Mac (Home and Student Edition). When I get an
e-mail (and Entourage is open but I am not working in the program), an
envelope shows on the Entourage "e" in the Dock letting me know that I have
mail. This is better for me than a pop-up notification because the pop-up
notification goes away quickly and I won't see it if I am not looking at the
screen at that moment.

I have played around with Office for Mac 2008 on my son's computer. It appears
that the envelope of the Dock notification is no longer available.

Is this correct? Is there any solution (other than to not buy Office for Mac
2008)?

Many thanks.

No, the envelope is still there; just make sure that Entourage is not active
when you receive a new mail message. Note that Entourage can still be active
even if any windows are closed. If the application name in the top left
corner of the menu bar (next to the Apple logo) still reads "Entourage", you
need to switch to another application, such as the Finder, for the envelope
symbol to appear.

--
Michel Bintener
Microsoft MVP
Office:mac (Entourage & Word)

*** Please always reply to the newsgroup. ***

 

[Diane Ross]

I currently use Office for Mac (Home and Student Edition). When I get an
e-mail (and Entourage is open but I am not working in the program), an
envelope shows on the Entourage "e" in the Dock letting me know that I have
mail. This is better for me than a pop-up notification because the pop-up
notification goes away quickly and I won't see it if I am not looking at the
screen at that moment.

I'm always bumfuzzled by this. With all the spam that's downloaded I always
have mail. The little envelope is meaningless to me. OK, I know.... personal
opinion.

I have played around with Office for Mac 2008 on my son's computer. It appears
that the envelope of the Dock notification is no longer available.

You might like to try this. You will need to download and setup Growl. Set
to leave notification on screen until you dismiss it or set as Sticky. This
is really new and not sure how successful this is. Please let me know if
this works for you.

Make a rule: (see web page for screenshots and download for script)

<http://www.entourage.mvps.org/rules/example/rule013.html>

All Messages

Run AppleScript (select growl script see below)

Uncheck ³do not apply to other messages that meet this criteria² Place this
at the top of your Rules list.

Save this as a complied script to the Script Menu Items folder, or you can
download here:
<http://www.entourage.mvps.org/downloads/scripts/Growl.zip>


tell application "GrowlHelperApp"
set the allNotificationsList to {"New Mail"}
set the enabledNotificationsList to {"New Mail"}
register as application ¬
"Entourage" all notifications allNotificationsList ¬
default notifications enabledNotificationsList ¬
icon of application "Microsoft Entourage"
end tell

tell application "Microsoft Entourage"
set theMessages to the current messages
end tell
repeat with theMsg in theMessages
tell application "Microsoft Entourage"
set mysubject to get the subject of theMsg
set mysender to the display name of sender of theMsg as string
if mysender is "" then
set mysender to the address of sender of theMsg as string
end if
end tell
tell application "GrowlHelperApp"
notify with name "New Mail" title "You have new email" description
("From " & mysender & " about " & mysubject) application name "Entourage"
end tell
end repeat

 

[Unknown]

Uncheck ³do not apply to other messages that meet this criteria² Place this

at the top of your Rules list.

This was the part that I was missing. Thank you so much! I had the rule
listed toward the bottom and now it works! No one else mentioned the
placement of the rule! Thanks!

 

[Diane Ross]

This was the part that I was missing. Thank you so much! I had the rule
listed toward the bottom and now it works! No one else mentioned the
placement of the rule! Thanks!

Rule Basics:

There are 3 different kind of rules in Entourage:

Mailing List Manager (MLM)
Junk Mail Filter
Rules (custom rules you create)

They run in the order listed above. The custom rules also run in the order
they are listed. (top runs first)

1) POP Rules act on a message ONLY when it first arrives in the Inbox (On My
Computer), NOT when it arrives in any other folder. Once it's moved to
another folder it won't be seen by rules.

2) IMAP Rules are meant to act on a message ONLY when it first arrives in
the IMAP INBOX, not when moved to another IMAP folder.

3) Exchange Rules act on a message ONLY when it first arrives in the
Exchange Inbox.

Each type of account has it's own rules. Click on the correct tab to check
your rules. (Mail (POP), Mail (IMAP) Mal (Windows Live Hotmail) Mail
(Exchange), News, Outgoing)

See "Using Rules with Entourage" for help and examples:

<http://entourage.mvps.org/rules/index.html>