incoming email, messages in the tray ?

[sportman12]

When POP Peeper gets new incoming email, can the number messages appear in the tray ?

[mjs]

From the POP Peeper main menu try going to "Tools" > "Options" > "Tray Icon" to see if selecting "Rotate number of messages for each account" as displayed below will get what you want.

Select this circle option in the "New mail tray icon" section of this window.

I haven't tried this myself, but this sounds like what you are asking for by selecting this option in the "New mail tray icon" section as illustrated in the screen-shot.

[sportman12]

lakrsrool yes it is what you want is their a way to make the tray icon another color

[mjs]

The color will be what the color is set at for the account that has the new messages. If the account getting messages is the color GREEN then the icon with the number of messages will be GREEN, if the account is the color RED then the icon with the number of messages will be RED, if the account is the color BLUE then the icon with the number of messages will be BLUE and so on. Since the icon will be whatever the account color is, you can EDIT the account and change the account color and then the icon will be that same color when it displays the number of messages.

If you go to the POP Peeper "Help" > "Contents" and search for "Tray icon" you will find the following:

There are three sets of tray icons that you can choose POP Peeper to display when you have new email:
•Classic Icons: This will show a mailbox with an animated flag
•Color-coded Icons: The icon design is similar to "Classic Icons," but the background color indicates which accounts have new email. This option is not available on 8-bit displays (256 color mode).
•Rotate number of new messages: This will display directly in the tray how many messages each account has. The background color indicates which accounts have new email.

[sportman12]

lakrsrool apologize for all theses questions I am trying to set up my setting can I please ask you your setting of some options in pp I will tell you the setting options you tell me what your settings are please

[mjs]

I color code my accounts according to the Email provider (domain), for example Hotmail/Outlook account(s) would be RED, Yahoo accounts would be GREEN etc., EXAMPLES BELOW. I use the classic icon (with animated flag) however so the account colors are not reflected in the tray icon in my case, the purpose of the account color is just to distinguish accounts in the POP Peeper main window.

HOTMAIL/OUTLOOK ACCOUNT:

YAHOO ACCOUNT:

By doing this above as illustrated then if you use the tray icon setting you have tried the color of the icon will match the color of the account so that you would know which accounts are getting the new mail (numbered in the icon) based on the color of the tray icon.

[sportman12]

lakrsrool yes thanks got icon colors figured out

Another question for you apologize for all theses questions I am trying to set up my setting can I please ask you your setting of some options in pp I will show you mine in theses screenshots you tell me what your settings with screenshots are please

[mjs]

The settings you have are fine if this is what you want, these settings are the preference of the person using POP Peeper.

What you might think about doing is going to "Help" > "Contents" and reading through some of the POP Peeper help there.

[mjs]

sportman12, please be sure and do NOT include any personal (private) information when corresponding in the forum including attached images. Notice that I have modified or redacted (removed) all personal (private) information in the screen-shots I previously posted with specific account information, you must make sure that you do the same.

I am retiring for the evening now as it is getting late, if you have any further questions possibly another POP Peeper support team member can provide additional help, otherwise if not you will need to wait until tomorrow for any further questions you may have. Hopefully what I have provided will help you out for now.

[sportman12]

lakrsrool »what is the difference for what I have for tray icon and what you have ?

[sportman12]

Jeff what is your set up please give me a screenshot

[mjs]

lakrsrool »what is the difference for what I have for tray icon and what you have ?

sportman12, I posted my settings before, it was included in my first screen-shot. I use "classic icons" (as illustrated in my screen-shot), but you had asked for something different (you wanted to know if the number of messages can be displayed in the tray icon).

I suggested what you could try because you started out the forum topic with this question:

When POP Peeper gets new incoming email, can the number messages appear in the tray ?

Here is the same screen-shot again that I first posted to this topic in answer to the topic question (where I suggested you try the setting illustrated in this screen-shot to get what you requested):

My first screen-shot that I posted in reply to your topic when you asked "can the number messages appear in the tray"

sportman12, the POP Peeper options are for the preferences of people using POP Peeper. I would like to say however that in recent posts you have generally been asking about getting alerts for "new" mail. I would suggest that you try unchecking the option (see screen-shot below) you have checked that says "Tray icon reflects status of unread messages instead of new messages" in the "miscellaneous" section of the "Tray Icon" setting you included in your very last screen-shot above, note that by unchecking this option you would get the status of "NEW MESSAGES" which seems to me is what you have frequently been asking about recently. You will notice in the screen-shot that I first posted in reply to this topic and am now including here again in this post, I have this option unchecked in my case. You have the option checked which would mean the tray icon is giving you the status of unread messages instead of new messages just like it says. If you want NEW MESSAGES reflected in the tray icon you should in that case uncheck this option. This is just a suggestion which I think will make more sense to you perhaps regarding what you will get in your tray icon regarding new messages.

If you try my suggestion here I think you will be getting what you want from the tray icon.

So if you scroll up to the my first post in this topic and you have selected what I suggested you try in the "New mail tray icons" section (which I think you have already done) so you get the number of messages to appear in the tray icon like you had originally asked for and of course the color of the icon will tell you what account it is because it will be the color you have set the account at (as we discussed) and if you uncheck the option I just mentioned above (example included below again of what you originally posted) so your settings look like what I first posted I think you will be getting what you want out of the tray icon (click image to enlarge).
Try it out and let us know if this is what you want.

Oh and as I previously suggested you can always get a lot of help by going to "Help" > "Contents" and simply doing a "Search" for example as to any questions you might have, the explanation in the "Help" function of POP Peeper can often provide far better clarity to questions you might have than I am able to provide. (which you might notice is where I got the information from in my 2nd post in the topic regarding the "Tray Icon" you were initially asking about )

[Jeff]

sportman, like lakrsrool said, the tray icon settings are going to be dependent on your personal taste and the best way to decide which works best for you is to try each one for a day or two. Also, for example, the option, "tray icon reflects status of unread messages" that lakrsrool's also pointed out, may not be as obvious what it's doing if you don't understand exactly what it's doing. If you tend to leave messages unread, then this option should *not* be enabled; but if you generally have all your messages marked as read and you want a reminder that you have unread messages, then it can be useful.

Personally, I use "color-code by account" but I have so many accounts and different colors that there's only a couple colors that I really pay attention to. And I leave a lot of unread messages, so "tray icon reflects status of unread messages" is disabled.

[sportman12]

Jeff in my post 41 can you please give me a screenshot of your set up visual is best for me to get it please get back to me

[Jeff]

My personal settings for Tray Icon

[sportman12]

Jeff or lakrsroo in . Tray icon I had it on Rotate number of new messages each account and color code new account I noticed the circle with the white number. Dose not come in on the tray I can not get the e circle with the white number in the tray to appear ?

[mjs]

Jeff or lakrsroo in . Tray icon I had it on Rotate number of new messages each account and color code new account I noticed the circle with the white number. Dose not come in on the tray I can not get the e circle with the white number in the tray to appear ?

I'm confused about your post concerning a "circle with the white number".

I have sent a test message to an account that is color coded red. I am using the "Rotate number of new messages for each account" like you have done.

This is the result I get when a new message arrives:
1) The tray icon looks like this in my black status bar because the account color is red (so the circle is red) and there is a number "1" in the circle because one new message arrived in the POP Peeper inbox for this account.

Tray Icon looks like this representing one new message for an account color coded red

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2) This is the new message in the POP Peeper inbox, notice the "new mail" icon and that the account is red.

Here is the new message listed in the POP Peeper inbox for this account color coded red as you can see

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What is it that you are getting that is different than this when a new message arrives in POP Peeper?

[sportman12]

lakrsrool in tray icon the only way the circle comes with a number "is if it is set to Tray icon reflects status of unread messages instead of new messages you to ?

[mjs]

lakrsrool in tray icon the only way the circle comes with a number "is if it is set to Tray icon reflects status of unread messages instead of new messages you to ?

If it is checked then you will get the count for unread messages or if it is not checked then you will get the number of new messages

If you check the option above then the Tray Icon will display the status for "unread messages", in other words the number of "unread messages" you have in POP Peeper.

If you do not check the option above (like what you see above without check) then the Tray Icon will display the status for "new messages", in other words the number of "new messages you have in POP Peeper.

The option says: Tray icon reflects status of unread messages instead of new messages which is only true if this option is checked or to put it another way it is what you get in the Tray Icon if this option is checked. (New messages is what in my opinion most people will use so this option is most likely usually unchecked for most people and is the default value I might add)

Whether you check this box is up to what you want to see in the Tray Icon.

If you want to see the number of "new messages" then leave the option unchecked (without the check mark which is the default setting), which is what I do and what Jeff does.

If on the other hand you want to see the number of "unread messages" then check the box (place a check mark in box), as Jeff pointed out, you would only want to do this if you usually read most of your messages and don't leave very many unread message behind in your inbox and you want to know how many unread messages there still might be that remain for each account.

I had previously suggested that it seems that you would be more interested in the "new" messages that arrive in POP Peeper based on previous remarks you have made. So I have suggested that perhaps you would probably prefer to have what you would get in your Tray Icon if you leave this option unchecked (without a check mark) so that you will see the number of "new" messages in POP Peeper for each account.

Go over what Jeff previously posted (in part) again:

.... the tray icon settings are going to be dependent on your personal taste.... If you tend to leave messages unread, then this option should *not* be enabled; but if you generally have all your messages marked as read and you want a reminder that you have unread messages, then it can be useful.

Personally, I use "color-code by account" but I have so many accounts and different colors that there's only a couple colors that I really pay attention to. And I leave a lot of unread messages, so "tray icon reflects status of unread messages" is disabled.

... which is to say that Jeff leaves this option UNCHECKED. To reiterate, both Jeff and I have this setting unchecked (disabled) so that we will see the number of "new" messages. This is your choice however, but again I have suggested to you that you try unchecking this option and see if this is what you want.

[sportman12]

lakrsrool in tray icon the only way the circle comes with a number "is if it is set to Tray icon reflects status of unread messages and "Rotate number of new messages for each account" is on or other tray icon settings the mailbox icon is used ?