When will Microsoft make an e-mail checker?

[coomarlin]

I'm wondering when Microsoft will decide to incorporate an e-mail checker into outlook express that will sit in the taskbar and check your email on a scheduled interval? Sure OE can check it on regular intervals right now, but you need to keep OE itself running all the time. Netscapes done it for years with their mail notifier.

I know there are third party utilities that can do it, but most of them seemed bulky. I've used a program called jetmail monitor with success, but I'm just curious as to why Microsoft wouldn't incorporate such a feature? Or maybe they do and I'm not aware of it?

Comments?

 

[dpopiz]

what's the point? having oe open probably uses just about as much resources as your "mail checker"

 

[Nothinman]

I hope they don't, 3rd party developers need something to do after all.

 

[igowerf]

All of the applications that come with Windows are pretty bare bone compared to the third party apps. I think that's how it should be. I'm using the Thunderbird (Mozilla) mail client right now. As long as I have the client open, it will check email every 10 minutes and a little notice will pop up above the system tray. I don't think there's an option to minimize it to the system tray though.

 

[Mitzi]

Originally posted by: igowerf
All of the applications that come with Windows are pretty bare bone compared to the third party apps. I think that's how it should be. I'm using the Thunderbird (Mozilla) mail client right now. As long as I have the client open, it will check email every 10 minutes and a little notice will pop up above the system tray. I don't think there's an option to minimize it to the system tray though.

I want to check Thunderbird out because I've had such a good experience with Firebird but I think I'll wait till it at least goes alpha before moving over from Eudora...

 

[sean2002]

Originally posted by: coomarlin
I'm wondering when Microsoft will decide to incorporate an e-mail checker into outlook express that will sit in the taskbar and check your email on a scheduled interval? Sure OE can check it on regular intervals right now, but you need to keep OE itself running all the time. Netscapes done it for years with their mail notifier.

I know there are third party utilities that can do it, but most of them seemed bulky. I've used a program called jetmail monitor with success, but I'm just curious as to why Microsoft wouldn't incorporate such a feature? Or maybe they do and I'm not aware of it?

Comments?

Outlook 2002 can be be sent to the system tray

 

[EeyoreX]

Personally, I hope MS never does this. And I don't care about 3rd party developers doing it either. While I appreciate emails potential as a method to communicate, I so hate people who think email is instant. Yes, it gets from me to you instantly, but people think "What happend to Joe!? I emailed him 30 MINUTES ago and he STILL hasn't replied!!!!" I hate this. I don't have a pager (unless I needed one for work) I use a cell phone only to communicate with family for important things ("Help! My car won't start!") or for other info. I don't want these things to tether me and make me "always available". Cripes, let me alone for a few hours. If someone has something so urgent they need to tell me, use the phone. I am not going to sit in front of my PC and watch the email checker so it can tell me if I have a new email every 10 minutes. Just my opinion, I am not trying to flame anyone. I just don't appreciate people who email me thinking I am obligated to respond within "X" number of minutes of their emails, so I personally have no use or desire to see such things. Of course, I can also appreciate there are people who do need such functionality, but now I can say "I don't use one, and am not going to get one to use." i don't want one standard. It eliminates a possible "excuse" for not using one. 😉

\Dan