Popup box with email messages

[peng90583]

I was working on some automatic email function. since I want to make sure that the receivers notice this email message. Is there anyway that I could do that? I am thinking some popup box with a message. But how do I create a email message which will trigger a popup box?

Thanks,

[RudyL]

Originally posted by Spetnik
I am not sure I understand what you are trying to do. Are you trying to force a popup on a user's machine when he or she receives an email? If they are using outlook, it is possible, but you would have to install a macro or rule on their machine.

-Aaron

Outlook already does this, you just need to turn the option on...

No macro, No rule..

[peng90583]

Aaron,

Thanks for your suggestion.

Other than the Popup box, is there any other way I could use to reminder the person who receive the email generated from my
VB program?

I just want the person receiving the email will check his or her email because the email contains some important information.

Thanks,

[JordanChris]

You can not control what a user does when they are sent an e-mail message. It is up to the receiver of the message whether they read it now, or in 2 weeks time after coming back from their holidays or delete it without reading it.

However, if you are in a Corporate environment where reading and responding to a particular e-mail message is a part of their job, then you can do something. The best thing to do, though, is to get their manager to say "If you don't respond to these e-mails in 1 hour, you will be sacked".


Having decided you can do things to the users desktop, you can do things with Outlook - Rules, pop-ups, special alarms for special messages etc.
Or you can write a program that checks on Outlook and sees what messages have been received.