The Folder Assistant has some features that can forward you a copy of the new
item or send a different message altogether. It cannot do Desktop Alerts or
dialog pop-ups though. For the latter you need to use VBA. You'd have to
set a module level reference for an Items collection object using the With
Events keyword. You'd also need to know the folder path or EntryID value to
set a reference to a MAPIFolder object from which you'd obtain the Items
collection object.

Once you have an Items object declared as above, there's an ItemAdd event
you can trap to do something when a message arrives. Note that this event
may not fire if a lot of items are delivered/saved at the same time. A more
reliable but more difficult event to trap would be the Application.NewMailEx
event.

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"Jarryd" wrote:

Hi,

How do you set a public folder to display notifications when an item is
added to it? I particularly want to set this so certain Outlook clients
receive notifications for certain public folders. I don't want the items to
be forwarded to the users' mailboxes - I want a messagebox to be displayed.
If I have to do this with VBA (ThisOutlookSession) then cool. But what
event do you use, and what is the basic code that you would use to do this.

TIA,

Jarryd