Alert Popup & Edit Mail Type

Options -- Alert Popup

The alert popup is a small unobtrusive window that is used to notifiy the user when new mail arrives.

Position
Location where on the screen the alert message should be shown.

Colors/Font
Text and background attributes to use when displaying a message.

Show window for ... seconds
This is the time in seconds for which the window will appear. If you set this value to zero it will stay on screen until you click it away or until a new mail arrives in which case the window will be replaced by the new one.

Animation
The program offers a selection of four different animations to display the popup window on screen. Please note that for older computers with less powerful graphics boards, it may be necessary to disable the animation.

Show new mail's details ...
When new mail arrives you will see the number of mails in your mailbox and the number of new mails. Additionally you can choose to display the mail's From, To and Subject field in the popup window for up to five new mails.

Format
The format in which the details are displayed. You may use any text and the placeholders $from, $to, $subject $date, $time, $size, $spam, and $type, e.g.
$from: $subject
or From $from about $subject
Note: The placeholders must be typed in lowercase.

Show extra buttons ...
If this option is enabled, the popup window will show a list of buttons at the bottom. These buttons allow you to open the mail program ("read" button), to delete the message from the server (if supported by the mail account and if only one message is shown in the popup window), to show the MailBell inbox message list for this server ("inbox" button, only if more than one message is listed in the popup window), to display the same popup window later (unless new mail arrives in the meantime) and to close the popup window.

Option -- Email Types

Email types allow you to define specific notification options (e.g. different sounds) depending on an emails characteristics.

Options -- Edit Mail Type

If you want different notifications for different types of mail (e.g. for important mail or for mail from your buddies) you can create, modify and delete mail types here.

When checking a mail for being of a special type, MailBell will start at the top of the list and work its way down. The first hit will determine the mail's type.

For every mail type item you can set the following properties:

Name
The name of the mail type (e.g. to be displayed in the popup window).

Keywords/Phrases
A list of words or phrases to look for. MailBell will treat each line in the list as a phrase and will look for a (case insensitive) match in the mail, e.g. if you enter

MailBell Feature special offer
the program will find mails that contain "EmTec feature", "mailbell price" but not ones that contain "special price".

... in message header
If this option is checked MailBell will look for the keywords in the from, to and subject field.

... in message body
If this option is checked MailBell will look for the keywords in the first 20 lines of the message body. (However, the message body is only available when checking mail on POP3, IMAP4 or MAPI accounts).

... more than XX spam points
When incoming mail has been analyzed, it is assigned a certain amount of spam points, indicating the probablility that it is spam. With this option you can build mail types based on the spam level. However, the feature to exclude messages above a certain spam level from notification (Tools menu, Spam-Settings), takes precedence.

Show popup
The state of this option overrides the same setting in the regular options and determines if a popup window is shown or not. This way you could for example have popups for normal messages and suppress them for spam mail. This function will only work if this is the only (new) message displayed in the popup window. it will be ignored if MailBell finds and displays more than one new message.

Special color
This feature will determine the color of the entry in the popup window if a new mail of this type arrives.

Mail is indicated by sound
This feature will play the sound file specified if a new mail of this type arrives (see note below).
If you want to suppress the sound for this type of mail, please select the silent.wav file here.

Note: If message of multiple types arrive in a batch the type that is highest up in the list will determine the sound and popup color. Also, if one message matches the criteria for multiple types, it will be considered being of the type that is highest up in the list.