FAQ 3.8 How can I get rid of the envelope tray icon for spam?
Hi, with regard to the FAQ 3.8 How can I get rid of the envelope tray icon for spam? for Outlook. I have found that if I select "Mark All as Read" from the context menu for the Spam folder, then the envlope icon disappears. It may be possible to do this via the outlook automation interface, I have no idea. If not, I think it would be worth a mention in the FAQ list, instead of just stating that "you'll have to put up with the little envelope, sorry". Thanks for a really excellent product. Regards Phil Jollans MESSRING Systembau MSG GmbH Robert-Stirling-Ring 1 82152 Krailling Tel: +49-89-898139-712 Fax: +49-89-898139-924 phil.jollans@messring.de http://www.messring.com ____________________________________________________ Bitte beachten Sie unseren Haftungsauschluss unter: Please note our exclusion of liability at: http://www.messring.de/html/e-mail_disclaimer.html
Phil.Jollans@MESSRING.de wrote:
Hi,
with regard to the FAQ 3.8 How can I get rid of the envelope tray icon for spam? for Outlook.
I have found that if I select "Mark All as Read" from the context menu for the Spam folder, then the envlope icon disappears.
It may be possible to do this via the outlook automation interface, I have no idea. If not, I think it would be worth a mention in the FAQ list, instead of just stating that "you'll have to put up with the little envelope, sorry".
Thanks for the suggestion. I already have a bit of code that can remove the envelope icon from the tray, but unfortunately there is a bit more to the problem. What most people want is to avoid having to open Outlook to find out whether all the new messages are spam or not. So they want SpamBayes to remove the envelope icon automatically if there are no "interesting" new messages. But how do we determine, after we classify a new message as spam, that there are no other "interesting" messages that still haven't been read? Because the user can set up Outlook rules to move messages anywhere they want, it is impossible to know specific folders to check for unread messages and it would be very time-consuming to search every folder in the Outlook store for unread messages each time we classified a message as spam. -- Kenny Pitt
I customized the standard toolbar by adding "Mark as Read" on it. Clicking it is also an easy way to clear the icon (manually), no matter what folder the unread message may have been moved to (which might not be easy to hunt down). A caveat is that a message must be displayed (weather already read or not), so for those times when I don't have any messages in my In Box, I keep one always there, a new one moved from Drafts, blank From, To, Subject, just for that occasion. It appears that the icon is dumb about how many new messages there are. It is displayed for one or more and if for more is cleared as soon as one is read. This is okay because if one is read that means the user is in Outlook and should already be aware that there are other messages too. <Phil.Jollans@MESSRING.de> wrote... with regard to the FAQ 3.8 How can I get rid of the envelope tray icon for spam? for Outlook. I have found that if I select "Mark All as Read" from the context menu for the Spam folder, then the envlope icon disappears. ...
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