Outlook new mail trigger

[djam]

I wrote a app which interfaces with Outlook. It checks when I receive a email and does something. I put a timer on it to check every 5 secs when there is a new email.

I was wonder if it is possible to have some sort of trigger that tells me when I get a email. I don't want to keep checking every 5 secs because it takes up resources and its not the proper way to do it.

thanks

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[DaZZleD]

i do believe that unless you implement some logic on the mail server there is no way for you to do that. and even so, you would need to have some way of communicating between the server and your application (using some network protocol) which implies that the IP address of the computer with the application is fixed (either a fixed IP address in the internet, either in the same LAN).