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11 Dec 2006, 07:54 AM | #1 |
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Specific Email Notification Program?
Hello everyone, I google searched Email Forums and you guys were on the top of the list! so here I am. I am curious if there is a program that can notify me when I have received email from a specific sender. I use the popular free service called Hotmail and I'd like to be notified when my girlfriend sends me emails. I would like it to be able to play a custom sound when the email has been received into my mailbox. Is this possible?. Thanks in advance!.
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11 Dec 2006, 09:10 AM | #2 |
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PopPeeper and Eprompter are two I am aware of.
http://fileforum.betanews.com/browse/E-Mail/Utilities |
11 Dec 2006, 10:09 AM | #3 | |
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12 Dec 2006, 06:06 AM | #4 |
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Hotmail doesn't support pop, it supports Microsofts own http-based protocol, but only if you have a paid account or had the account before they restricted it.
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12 Dec 2006, 06:17 AM | #5 |
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PopPeeper will work with free hotmail accounts. You just need to get and install the Webmail plugin from the PopPeeper website.
I doubt that you will find any program that will notify you when mail arrives at hotmail from a specific sender but I could be wrong. |
12 Dec 2006, 09:26 AM | #6 | |
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You would also need to use a third party program such as FreePOPs to access your Hotmail messages from within your client. |
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13 Dec 2006, 01:09 AM | #7 | |
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13 Dec 2006, 03:05 AM | #8 |
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Re: Re: Re: Specific Email Notification Program?
Although I haven't used the Windows Live messenger, I've long thought the only things worse than the Yahoo messenger were the MSN and AIM mesengers -- the lesser of evils, as it were, the latest version of the AIM messenger (called Triton, if I recall correctly) being such a system resource hog that I've never tried running it again after logging into it the first time.
But although it's been quite awhile since I last used Trillion, I seemed to recall that it was possible to customize its sound alerts for different "events", as I seem to recall setting different sound files to alert myself of my various "contacts" logging in, etc. So I would think it would be possible to select your own mail alert sound file as well. Are you sure you've checked the options thoroughly for that? Last edited by xmailer : 13 Dec 2006 at 03:10 AM. |
16 Dec 2006, 05:32 AM | #9 |
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MailAlert will do what you want for any POP account - queries it as often as you select, and if it finds new message that matches criteria you have specified, it can play a sound, launch an application, etc. I used it play one sound for mail from my family, another if from my girlfriend, another if it was addressed my work alias, etc.
I don't know how to get POP access to hotmail, but if one of the previously mentioned programs can do that much for you, MailAlert can do the rest. -jeff- |