I don't know if I have everything straight here.

1: The pop-up is in the bottom right hand corner, and on a 19" screen it is
a little less than 2" x 2". It lasts for about 5 seconds, but if you click
on it, it goes away immediately.

2: It has many options. It does not inform you if there is new mail on the
server. OE /must/ be opened, but can be minimized to get the notification.
You can choose to be notified once, or continuously until you read the mail.
Your choice.

There are six boxes of options. I have only 1 & 5 checked.

If you just want a sound, and not a pop-up, get Steve's OETune:
www.oehelp.com/OETips.aspx
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Bruce Hagen
MS-MVP Outlook Express
~IB-CA~

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On Feb 22, 7:16 am, "Bruce Hagen" wrote:
This freeware program will give you a pop-up notification of new mail
regardless of what program you are in.
[....]
Outlook Express Mail Alert 2.1:http://www.tucows.com/preview/381108

Do you know:

1. Instead of a pop-up (which interferes with whatever the user is
current doing), can the program be configured to simply provide a
sound alert and/or blink the minimized window, the way that some
background programs indicate that attention is required?

2. The program description says that it will "inform or remind you
when new e-mail arrives in Microsoft Outlook Express". If email is
manually "popped" from an ISP server (Earthlink), will the freeware
program detect new email on the ISP server?

If not, is there a way to configure OE so that email is "popped"
automatically, thereby causing the freeware program to detect that
email arrived "in" OE?

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Footnote.... Arguably, I should simply "play around" with the
freeware program and answer the questions myself. But, sigh, this is
really for someone else's computer, and they are suspicious and
relunctant to make any "unproven" changes; and my computer is not set
up to use an ISP mail server, so it is difficult for me to experiment
with OE on my own computer.