How to display new mail desktop alert for subfolders in Outlook?
By default, the new email desktop alert only displays when the new email message arrives in the Inbox folder. If you have created rule for setting Outlook subfolder to receive specific emails, the desktop alert cannot be displayed when the new email arrives. Without the new email desktop alert, you may miss the email and cannot be responded in time. This article will tell you how to display new mail desktop alert for subfolders in Outlook with creating rule.
Display new mail desktop alert for subfolders in Outlook
Display new mail desktop alert for subfolders in Outlook
For displaying the desktop alert when new message arrives in the subfolder, you can create a rule to solve it, please do as follows.
1. Get into any folder under the specified email account and open the Rules and Alerts dialog box.
In Outlook, click "Rules" > "Manage Rules & Alerts" in the "Move" group under "Home" tab.
2. In the "Rules and Alerts" dialog box, click "New Rule" under" E-mail Rules" tab. See screenshot:
3. In the first "Rules Wizard" dialog box, click "Apply rule on messages I receive" in Outlook 2010 and 2013, or click "Check messages when they arrives" in Outlook 2007. And then click the "Next" button.
4. In the second "Rules Wizard" dialog box, do not select any condition and click the "Next" button. And then click the "OK" button in the popping up prompt box. See screenshot:
5. In the following "Rules and Wizard" dialog box, check the "display a Desktop Alert" box in Step 1, then click the "Finish" button directly.
6. Click the "OK" button in the popping up prompt box.
7. When it returns to the "Rules and Alert" dialog box, please click the "OK" button.
From now on, when you receiving new email message no matter in the Inbox folder or the subfolders, the desktop alert will be displayed.
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