Tool to detect whether I have not received a regular e-mail

I receive an e-mail from our hosted backup provider whenever a backup job has run. I don't really care about those e-mails unless the backups are unsuccessful, or if I don't get the e-mails (meaning that the jobs have been delayed by some error).

Using e-mail rules, I can easily move the "job success" e-mails and mark them as read, so I don't get them in my inbox.

But is there a way or a tool that can help me to detect whether I haven't received an e-mail from a specific sender for e.g. 24 hours?

E-mail client is Outlook connected to an Exchange server.

RasmusW

Posted 2014-03-13T13:02:56.933

Reputation: 111

Are the subjects of the emails static and different from one another? – Raystafarian – 2014-03-13T13:19:22.767

The subjects are not completely static. They all start with either "Backup Report [Successful]" or "Backup Report [Failure]" followed by the backup job name. – RasmusW – 2014-03-17T08:18:20.923

Answers

In Outlook 2007/2010/2013 you can create a search folder for that purpose. Create custom search folder and specify sender and received time as a criteria. After that in this folder's properties set Show total number of items option.

That's all. Now if you don't see any number next to the folder name, you haven't received the required e-mail.

thims

Posted 2014-03-13T13:02:56.933

Reputation: 8 081

That is a good suggestion to tell me if I have received any mails, and I will use it unless I come up with something better.

I would like to have something more automated than me remembering to check the message count of the search folder. For example a tool that will do the check for me, and then e-mailing me if no messages have been received. – RasmusW – 2014-03-17T08:24:34.110