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Traylook 1.6.5 - Outlook Add-On

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Traylook - Outlook Add-On

Traylook - Outlook Add-On

Heinz Tschabitscher
The Bottom Line
Traylook adds a (more) useful system tray icon to Outlook and offers informative popup notification of new messages in user-defined folders, too. Still, Traylook could be even more functional with added features such as swift email deletion.
Pros
  • Traylook provides convenient, informative system tray notifications of new Outlook email
  • Lets you configure the Outlook folders to watch, opens emails directly from notification pop-up
  • Traylook provides fast context menu access to important Outlook functionality, too
Cons
  • Traylook doesn't allow you to cycle through emails manually
  • You can't delete emails right from the Traylook notification window
  • Traylook doesn't offer filters or rules to announce certain mail in a special way
Description
  • Traylook adds a system tray icon and new mail pop-up notification to Outlook.
  • You can specify the Outlook folders to watch.
  • Pop-up window position, size and color and the Traylook notification sound can be customized.
  • The Traylook pop-up shows folder, sender and subject for messages, which can be opened directly.
  • If there is more than one new email, Traylook cycles through them automatically.
  • Traylook supports Windows 98/ME/NT/2000/3/XP and Outlook 2000/2/3.
Guide Review - Traylook 1.6.5 - Outlook Add-On
It is possible: you can like (or have to use) Outlook without being satisfied with its email notification options.

Enter Traylook, enter system tray popup notification. Not only can you specify the location, color and gradient direction of the Traylook notification window, it's also possible to specify the Outlook folders you want get new mail notifications for. Of course, you can also define a notification sound.

Unfortunately, none of these options can be combined with filtering, to make Traylook announce special messages in a special way, for example. And, as useful as the Traylook pop-up is, cycling through all the new messages, it would be nice if individual emails could be dismissed manually or deleted right from the notification window.

Nice like the Traylook tray icon, which provides fast access to oft-used Outlook commands (like "New Mail...").

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