Vista - New Mail Icon in system tray

I am using Windows Mail in Vista RTM and when I get the new mail icon showing
up in my system tray. All of that is fine, the issue comes when I have
deleted the new email without reading it (don't feel like reading spam :P).
The new mail icon remains in the system tray, even though I don't have new
mail, until I close Windows Mail. Is this supposed to happen?

Don't know what happened there, but the first sentence should read:
"I am using Windows Mail in Vista RTM and when I get new email, the new mail
icon is showing up in my system tray."

One way to solve it would be to right click on the message, select "Mark as
Read" then delete it. As long as you have unread mail, the icon will remain
in the tray until you close the program.
--
Jim Pickering, MVP/Windows Mail applications
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"David Wright" <DavidWright@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:0A33CBEA-CA25-47FD-BF8D-ABCD1CE10D04@microsoft.com...
> Don't know what happened there, but the first sentence should read:
> "I am using Windows Mail in Vista RTM and when I get new email, the new
> mail
> icon is showing up in my system tray."

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.

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
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> 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.

Deleting was the wrong choice in wording, I should have said specified. By
deleting I meant using the "Empty Junk E-mail Folder" option.

"David Wright" <DavidWright@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:A8929866-3C0A-493D-8E40-5532E4BE3F2F@microsoft.com...
> Deleting was the wrong choice in wording, I should have said specified.
> By
> deleting I meant using the "Empty Junk E-mail Folder" option.

Right click the top toolbar>customise, now select from the left and add
buttons, 'mark all' 'mark read'.

Add and remove any unwanted toolbar buttons while you are there.

--
Regards Steve.
MS-MVP. OE. [DTS]
http://www.getsafeonline.org/

"David Wright" wrote:

> I am using Windows Mail in Vista RTM and when I get the new mail icon showing
> up in my system tray. All of that is fine, the issue comes when I have
> deleted the new email without reading it (don't feel like reading spam :P).
> The new mail icon remains in the system tray, even though I don't have new
> mail, until I close Windows Mail. Is this supposed to happen?

It is incredibly lame, the same thing happened with Outlook Express when a
mail rule was applied (even if the rule marked it as read). Of course this
was expected to some extent because:

1) Outlook Express was an old, very simple mail client and it wasn't being
actively maintained.
2) The spam filtering had to be external, as it had no built in spam
filtering.

The fact that it still does this is a good indication that the development
team are not using it on a day to day basis, as it annoys every single person
I have ever seen using OE (and now Windows Mail).

The Mail Rules need updating too, there is no "when a message is marked as
spam" option.

/Sean Cameron/ said:
> "David Wright" wrote:
>
>> I am using Windows Mail in Vista RTM and when I get the new mail
>> icon showing up in my system tray. All of that is fine, the issue
>> comes when I have deleted the new email without reading it (don't
>> feel like reading spam :P). The new mail icon remains in the
>> system tray, even though I don't have new mail, until I close
>> Windows Mail. Is this supposed to happen?
>
> It is incredibly lame, the same thing happened with Outlook Express
> when a mail rule was applied (even if the rule marked it as read). Of
> course this was expected to some extent because:
>
> 1) Outlook Express was an old, very simple mail client and it wasn't
> being actively maintained. 2) The spam filtering had to be external,
> as it had no built in spam filtering.
>
> The fact that it still does this is a good indication that the
> development team are not using it on a day to day basis, as it annoys
> every single person I have ever seen using OE (and now Windows
> Mail).
>
>
> The Mail Rules need updating too, there is no "when a message is
> marked as spam" option.

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/

"Sean Cameron" <SeanCameron@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message news:9B38BFFD-84E6-4839-917A-0CF57B1DD7FF@microsoft.com...
> "David Wright" wrote:
>
>> I am using Windows Mail in Vista RTM and when I get the new mail icon showing
>> up in my system tray. All of that is fine, the issue comes when I have
>> deleted the new email without reading it (don't feel like reading spam :P).
>> The new mail icon remains in the system tray, even though I don't have new
>> mail, until I close Windows Mail. Is this supposed to happen?
>
> It is incredibly lame, the same thing happened with Outlook Express when a
> mail rule was applied (even if the rule marked it as read). Of course this
> was expected to some extent because:
>
> 1) Outlook Express was an old, very simple mail client and it wasn't being
> actively maintained.
> 2) The spam filtering had to be external, as it had no built in spam
> filtering.
>
> The fact that it still does this is a good indication that the development
> team are not using it on a day to day basis, as it annoys every single person
> I have ever seen using OE (and now Windows Mail).
>
> The Mail Rules need updating too, there is no "when a message is marked as
> spam" option.