On 1 Jun 2009 at 9:55, Ben Nordlander wrote: > I have several emails i get every day that notify when a job is finished; > some of these emails come from legacy systems that don't allow much control > for me. > > Does anyone know of a method to create some type of notification in Outlook > (probably using rules) that would allow for some extra notification if one of > these daily emails don't get sent to me? > > For instance, i receive a particular email from an email archive product > every morning at 7:30am. But if i don't receive it; i would like to create > some kind of rule that would implement an action of my choosing (even a > script of my choosing) to notify me that i didn't receive that email today. > This is especially useful if i'm not at a computer most of that day and i > badly need to know about a missed job that my email archive didn't perform > today.
Sure, here's the logic, you'll have to manipulate it to work for your situation. One of the Actions that Outlook can take when an email comes in is "run a script". Create a script that creates a flag-file, and run that script when the archive email arrives: echo ARCHIVE EMAIL CAME IN>"%temp%\ARCHIVE.TXT" Now create a scheduled task that runs every day at 7:45 AM. Run a batch file that checks to see if "%temp%\ARCHIVE.TXT" exists. If it exists, delete it and exit. If it doesn't exist, use BLAT to send an email to you. Here's an untested sample batch-file: if exist "%temp%\ARCHIVE.TXT" goto ItRan echo Archive didn't run > "%temp%\ARCHIVE.TXT" blat "%temp%\ARCHIVE.TXT" -to [email protected] -subject "No Archive" :ItRan del "%temp%\ARCHIVE.TXT" Google or BING for BLAT, it's a very useful free tool. HTH A -- Angus Scott-Fleming GeoApps, Tucson, Arizona 1-520-290-5038 +-----------------------------------+ ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~
