outlook tray icon won't go away

[Aaron Oxford]

why does the outlook icon show permanently in my system tray, regardless of
whether I have new mail? is there a way to turn it off?

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[Vince Averello [MVP-Outlook]]

That's not the new mail icon. The small envelope is for new mail. The
Outlook icon stays in the tray for other things.

 

[CMM]

It is also dumb, useless, and non-standard usage of the tray. It's
suppossedly there to inform you of "connection to Exchange" events... when
it should only show up if there is a problem. Even worse, this sort of
"purpertual status" indicator I think is being pushed by the UI guidelines
teams for Vista....... or at least in the early drafts of the guidelines

It's a revisiting of early Alpha versions of Win95 (when it was known as
Chicago) where the taskbar wasn't a taskbar, but a "Status bar" for all
programs (sorta like a flip upside down imitation of the MacOS UI).

This icon *would be* useful if it kept Outlook loaded in the background when
you closed the main window alerting you of new mail messages and Calendar
alerts. I said *closed* not minimized.... as every other program that uses
the tray doesn't put itself there by a "minimizing" User Interface
mechanism.

 

[tkokjohn]

Is there a way to get rid of it? I don't use any Exchange or Messanger
items. I only use Pop3 mail.