Not native to ARC, but the SDK could be used to develop an app that would set a variable within ARC when an email arrived. Another option is to setup something that dropped the email into a file, and the ARC app would look for the file and read it to you.

I am afraid that it would all be custom development work and that the email client that you are using would have to be a consideration. If you were using Outlook, that is one thing that could be done. If you are using a webpage to access your email, that would be a completely different deal.

If anyone has done anything like this on here, I bet it would be Rich. He might have some ideas.

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Something like this could be tied into being able to tell if there is a new email. The issue is that there are so many formats available for email now. For example, emails can come in clear text or HTML, contain attachments or enbedded links and pretty much everything else.

This could be used to at lease connect to the server, and do something (like set a variable in ARC) if there were a new email received.

The quantity of emails I get my robot would be constantly telling me I have a new email.

It's been mentioned and discussed previously however I do not know which topic it was in and searching for the term "email" doesn't exactly make the haystack that the needle is in any smaller.

There are methods, as @d.cochran has mentioned, which could be used but natively it's not something which is supported by ARC. The method used would depend on the email account (pop3/imap), the email client (outlook/thunderbird/web based etc.) and what you want it to do with knowing you have a new email.

All I want it to do is tell me that I have new mail nothing ells if it also reads it or any part of it then others in the room know what it is so I just want it to say you have mail

Why not just have the email client open on the PC which controls the robot? That will notify of new email...

I have Hotmail and only use a web browser to get it I had the outlook program but that caused way to many problems like never getting my mail because the program always deleted them from Hotmail and would never show them properly

Depending on your email provider, you might be able to get emails, or email notifications in an RSS feed, and use ARC's RSS feed reader to alert you.

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