Best notification for new email for non-Hotmail/Live accounts?

Is there any way of being notified (almost immediately) without using SMS on your cell, when you
have a new POP or IMAP email from a non-Hotmail or Live account? You can get WLMail to check every
few minutes but that kind of uses up a lot of bandwidth for nothing most of the time. There must be
a more efficient way surely of monitoring and alerting you. So many people can be reached with a
reply if you get the message instantly and can respond really fast. If you miss them they may not
check their messages for hours. This should be paramount in most everybody's computing since most
of our email is either time sensitive or not. For the stuff that is, nothing beats instant
notification and reply.

No, email wasn't designed to do that.
You and your correspondents would have to use Instant Messaging (IM).

Checking mail doesn't use up much bandwidth, but if the checking interval
is too short, you are likely to 'hang' the mailbox on the server.

--
Gary VanderMolen, Microsoft MVP (Mail)
http://mvp.support.microsoft.com/def...le/vandermolen


"RalphA" <reply-to-> wrote in message news:...
> Is there any way of being notified (almost immediately) without using SMS on your cell, when you
> have a new POP or IMAP email from a non-Hotmail or Live account? You can get WLMail to check every
> few minutes but that kind of uses up a lot of bandwidth for nothing most of the time. There must be
> a more efficient way surely of monitoring and alerting you. So many people can be reached with a
> reply if you get the message instantly and can respond really fast. If you miss them they may not
> check their messages for hours. This should be paramount in most everybody's computing since most
> of our email is either time sensitive or not. For the stuff that is, nothing beats instant
> notification and reply.
>