Inbox , new message alert .

I've seen an article explaining how to do alert when you get new email I think using socket , but I can't find it anywhere , anyone has seen it ? No matter the code was in C# or VB . plz

:rolleyes:

You mean like integrated into XP os? So it tells you at logon?

Something checks my inbox and returns with alert if a new message just received .

E-mail Notifications
When using Fast User Switching it is possible to display on the Welcome logon screen the number of unread e-mail messages for a logged user. Under the user name on the Welcome screen will be a hyperlink indicating the number of unread messages. Clicking on the hyperlink will reveal which account the messages are from. For example, Bob has three unread e-mail messages. Clicking on the hyperlink will show [email protected] (2) and [email protected] (1). The APIs to do this are SHGetUnreadMailCount and SHSetUnreadMailCount and are in shellapi.h. When the unread e-mail count is set, the date is stamped as well. If the unread e-mail entry is more than three days old, the Welcome screen will disregard the entries.


http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/de...dmailcount.asp

The one I saw was in .NET (I think it's sort of socket code) . If I'm online , and I got a message , would this notify me immediately ??
Does it establish continus connection with my email server (in this case it's Hotmail) .Damn I wish I can find that page .:rolleyes:

I don't know how that API function operates. It just appeared and only works on XP I believe...