"VanguardLH" wrote in message
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Um, and who gets to make the determination "there are no more messages to
read"? Certainly not you in a corporate environment where you are still
required to read all the company's or department's mail regardless of how
you chose to personally manage their appearance in your e-mail client.
Outlook is a *corporate* e-mail client. It is not designed for personal
use. Even if you had the option to turn off the tray icon (and the bubble
notice that works with it) using a rule, that doesn't obviate your
responsibility to read those company e-mails.

Outlook is not designed for use as a personal e-mail client. It is
designed as an enterprise solution along with Exchange (and optionally RM)
as a corporate e-mail client. To be honest, you (and I) are using an
oversized program to do personal e-mail that is not designed for personal
use.

Then if this is true about being "required to read every message" then
Microsoft should rename the "mark as read" rule and call it "undo bold
text." Oulook should not try to pretend it has a "mark as read" rule when
it really doesn't have one. Some manager/programmer came up with a fake
rule in that case.