Vista - New Mail Icon in system tray

"dev" wrote:
>
> An alternative worth considering is the SeaMonkey suite (formerly
> Mozilla, and similar to the bloated NetScape). It has an email client
> that, while not perfect, works very well. The NEW flag clears.
>
> Further, with correctly configured filters, nearly 100% of SPAM is hosed.
> I rely on a "white list", allowing only plain text messages from sources
> not in my address book. Over 100 spam messages are shunted to TRASH
> daily, where I check occasionally and delete them after a quick review.
>
> If you do not normally receive DESIRED unsolicited mail from sources
> not in your address book, as is the case with many users, then this
> approach might be right for you. Or, if you prefer, SeaMonkey
> has a built in "learning filter"...
>
> There is also the FireFox browser/Thunderbird mail combo - each a
> separate client. Very similar to SeaMonkey. Read about it at
> http://www.mozilla.org/projects/seamonkey/
>

I've used Thunderbird, Eudora and Outlook in the past, and they are all good
mail clients. The one thing that Windows Mail has going for it is it's
simplicity. I ended taking a different approach and wrote my own mail client.
It has far better search and filtering capabilities and multi-threaded
sending and receiving etc. While it does not have all of the features of
Outlook (yet <g>) it does a very good job indeed (and does some things that
Outlook doesn't do). It also synchronises with Outlook and Outlook Express.
On that note, does anyone have any idea of how to access the Windows Mail
data, and if any API or documentation is provided for it? I have looked
around, but I can't seem to find anything on MSDN or even via Google.

What little there is, is here:

http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms709546.aspx

Not a lot of fun to work with.

The messages are now stored as eml files so you can just access them to
extrapolate their data directly without having to use the OE / WM
interfaces.

steve

"Sean Cameron" <SeanCameron@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:A10051DD-4744-4916-8C07-E0E2DE08303D@microsoft.com...
> "dev" wrote:
>>
>> An alternative worth considering is the SeaMonkey suite (formerly
>> Mozilla, and similar to the bloated NetScape). It has an email client
>> that, while not perfect, works very well. The NEW flag clears.
>>
>> Further, with correctly configured filters, nearly 100% of SPAM is hosed.
>> I rely on a "white list", allowing only plain text messages from sources
>> not in my address book. Over 100 spam messages are shunted to TRASH
>> daily, where I check occasionally and delete them after a quick review.
>>
>> If you do not normally receive DESIRED unsolicited mail from sources
>> not in your address book, as is the case with many users, then this
>> approach might be right for you. Or, if you prefer, SeaMonkey
>> has a built in "learning filter"...
>>
>> There is also the FireFox browser/Thunderbird mail combo - each a
>> separate client. Very similar to SeaMonkey. Read about it at
>> http://www.mozilla.org/projects/seamonkey/
>>
>
> I've used Thunderbird, Eudora and Outlook in the past, and they are all
> good
> mail clients. The one thing that Windows Mail has going for it is it's
> simplicity. I ended taking a different approach and wrote my own mail
> client.
> It has far better search and filtering capabilities and multi-threaded
> sending and receiving etc. While it does not have all of the features of
> Outlook (yet <g>) it does a very good job indeed (and does some things
> that
> Outlook doesn't do). It also synchronises with Outlook and Outlook
> Express.
> On that note, does anyone have any idea of how to access the Windows Mail
> data, and if any API or documentation is provided for it? I have looked
> around, but I can't seem to find anything on MSDN or even via Google.

Yiu've got to admit this is not good, because you don't want to open new
"junk" messages and having to live with the icon standing there is just
unaceptable since other new non junk mesages may arrive and we won't notice
since the icon is there already, useless. Besides, Office Outlook icon
notification works the right way, why wouldn't Windows Mail do it? This is
not a funcionality feature, it's a bug!


"Jim Pickering" wrote:

> Just deleting does not mark it as read. If you were to just delete it, then
> go to your Deleted Items folder, you would see that it remains "bolded"
> indicating that it remains unread.
> --
> Jim Pickering, MVP/Windows Mail applications
> Please reply ONLY to newsgroup.
>
>
> "David Wright" <DavidWright@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
> news:4358C6B4-7921-490D-90FE-5B182FA77B6C@microsoft.com...
> > Thank you for your quick response Jim. I guess I will have to do that, it
> > just seems strange that deleting the "new" email doesn't remove the icon
> > from
> > the system tray.
>