How to Receive Real-time Alerts

Here's what you would do in order to be alerted immediately when an email comes in.

• If you're using a smart phone, please click / follow this link to set it up:  Never Miss an Important Email on Your Smartphone - Techlicious 

http://www.techlicious.com/how-to/never-miss-an-important-email-on-your-smartphone/

• If you are using Windows, you probably have MS Outlook and MS Outlook Express installed on your computer (it comes as part of the Windows system). You can set up Outlook so that it will go to your web-based email account (like hotmail.com), download your messages, and then notify you when new mail has arrived.You can find the details of setting this up by visiting hotmail.com (or whatever service you are using) and looking in the Help section. One thing you should do in Outlook is to set the interval in which the mail is downloaded. By default, the time is 20 minutes. That means that every 20 minutes, Outlook will go to hotmail.com (or wherever), check for mail, download it to your computer, and then notify you (usually with a beep and the appearance of an envelope icon in the System Tray [located in the lower right-hand corner of your computer screen] that mail has arrived. Although the location of this setting may vary depending on your version of Outlook, the path is something like: Tools » Options » Mail Delivery » "Check for new messages every . . ." For timely updates, set it for one (1) minute.

• If you are using Gmail account, please download and install the Gmail Notifier. Here's the link on Gmail Notifier. http://mail.google.com/support/bin/topic.py?topic=1543