Vba: separate popup windows for messages and reminders?

Question

One of the things I miss, and know that many probably don't, but I do, is the separate popup windows that Outlook used to deploy for reminders and incoming email notifications.  They weren't all lumped in together as in recent Outlook versions. 
I'm sure this new way works for many people but for power users such as myself, it was much easier to control things when each reminder or notification was separate.  Tedious, sure, when there were a lot, but certainly much easier than today's environment,
ultimately.
As I've found and implemented more and more vb, I'm getting back a lot of lost functionality from the past.  I went looking and thought I'd found a macro a couple of weeks ago that would do the job but it's actually not turned as I'd hoped.  Here
it is, the one that I use for emails from the folks, to give an example; it's invoked through a rule:
' HOME Emails:
Sub CustomMailMessageRule_Mom_or_Dad(Item As Outlook.MailItem)
MsgBox "Mail Received from Mom or Dad: " & Item.Subject
End Sub
The above does sort of give me a separate window popup but it's one that stops everything else in its tracks.  I have to accept it before more notifications pop up but they also stop any notifications from Outlook, period, yet don't give me separate
notification popups that can then be snoozed or even just minimized! Not good.
Can anyone suggest something that would help?  I recently moved all my reminders that were on a third party application to a secondary calendar that I created in Outlook where I saw, to my delight, that now will fire up reminders - something that wasn't
possible in the past (one tiny good thing we've received in exchange for so much lost functionality from a user standpoint! <g>).  It's just now even more difficult to work through everything that is lumped in under one window - And no custom boxes
with different colours or _anything_ to help differentiate them.
So, is there any way, perhaps vb, to have notifications fired from different popup windows somehow, emulating older Outlook versions?
Thanks so much!

Answer 1

Hello SGFan,
The MsgBox call stops the current thread until it is closed, i.e. the modal form is displayed. But you are interested in a non-modal form which doesn't stop the thread.
You can try to display a user form instead using the Show method.
UserForm1.Show vbModeless
However, it will not let the Outlook running. You need to display the form on another thread, it is possible with add-ins (not VBA).  See  Modeless
form that still pauses code execution for more information.
So sorry for the delay.  I'm still with the same problem so the above was not encouraging.  Though we come here to this forum to deal with vba, unlike the old NGs, it seems there are less users and more real developers, which I am not.  Just 
a power user.  And the above is not something I have yet crossed into.  It sounds like, but I'm guessing here, that this method requires a form (am I right)?  I haven't a clue how to do those yet, if that's the case <sigh>.  All I
know is that there are too many emails coming in with no easy way to make sure we don't miss something important.
This answer shows me that this particular approach isn't the solution.  This type of message box wasn't ideal, either.  Lordy but I miss so many features of Outlook 2000 all the time.  All these popups getting launched together is great for
a lot of people, but I'm not one of them.
Okay, back to trying to find a solution.
Thank you!!