[AccessD] OT: Prevent outlook from receiving email

The solution is NOT to turn of email.  The solution is to use an email client that sits in the 
background and does it's job of downloading your mail and holding it until you want to see it - 
not one that throws a notification in your face every time something comes in.  

I happily keep Pegasus Mail running minimized 24/7.  When I want to check my mail, a click 
on the taskbar pops it up and I can see immediately what is new.   

It doesn't distract me at all - and I don't have to wait for it to download all my waiting mail 
every time I decide to check it.     I do however get highly p*ssed off when I am working on a 
client's computer and that bl**dy Outlook notification keeps appearing when I am trying to do 
something..


-- 
Stuart

On 10 Jan 2012 at 9:17, jwcolby wrote:

>  > Well I haven't had a W-2 job since 1978 when I started my own company.  But it seems to me that 
> having emails pushed in your face all day long is intrusive and disruptive to your concentration and 
> efficiency.
> 
> Yep, yep and yep.  One of the suggestions for being more efficient is turn off all electronic 
> distractions such as email, social (twitter etc), IM and so forth.
> 
> http://www.askmen.com/money/professional_150/192_productive-people.html
> 
> John W. Colby
> Colby Consulting
> 
> Reality is what refuses to go away
> when you do not believe in it
> 
> On 1/10/2012 8:16 AM, Rocky Smolin wrote:
> > OT warning:
> >
> > Well I haven't had a W-2 job since 1978 when I started my own company.  But
> > it seems to me that having emails pushed in your face all day long is
> > intrusive and disruptive to your concentration and efficiency.
> >
> > I guess it's the culture. I've had people call me and ask if I didn't get
> > the email they sent five minutes ago.  They expected an immediate response
> > regardless of what I was doing at that moment.
> >
> > Sometimes I actually close Outlook - if I'm doing something that requires my
> > absolute attention.
> >
> > R
> >
> >
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: accessd-bounces at databaseadvisors.com
> > [mailto:accessd-bounces at databaseadvisors.com] On Behalf Of Gustav Brock
> > Sent: Tuesday, January 10, 2012 12:13 AM
> > To: accessd at databaseadvisors.com
> > Subject: Re: [AccessD] OT: Prevent outlook from receiving email
> >
> > Hi Rocky
> >
> > Ha ha, for us serviced by corporate e-mail where e-mails just pop in all day
> > (and night) long, this sounds as near the stone age.
> >
> > /gustav
> >
> >
> >>>> rockysmolin at bchacc.com 09-01-2012 19:45>>>
> > In Outlook there's a list box under Send/Receive and one of the options is
> > Send All.  Won't do any receiving.
> >
> > Also, in my Outlook if I send an email it won't do receive but I have it set
> > not to retrieve automatically. When I want my email I send for it.  I found
> > that automatically receiving was too intrusive - interrupted my too much.
> >
> > Rocky
> >
> >
> > --
> > AccessD mailing list
> > AccessD at databaseadvisors.com
> > http://databaseadvisors.com/mailman/listinfo/accessd
> > Website: http://www.databaseadvisors.com
> >
> 
> -- 
> AccessD mailing list
> AccessD at databaseadvisors.com
> http://databaseadvisors.com/mailman/listinfo/accessd
> Website: http://www.databaseadvisors.com
>