Apparently Outlook 2007 does not show the new mail icon in the tray nor does it play the new mail alert sound when a new e-mail/RSS feed item arrives in a location other than the inbox. I personally rely on the tray alert since I do not keep the window open and also sometimes miss the audio alert. The audio alert may be approximated with a script, but I have found no way to display that handy tray icon. I would greatly appreciate any suggestions for dealing with this problem as I am often missing new mails since switching to Outlook. Thanks!
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Outlook 2007 does not show new mail tray alert for mail/RSS outside the inbox
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Tools>Options>Email Options>Advanced Email Options.
From here you can enabled both the tray icon and sounds. Here is a link to an MS Office sound download
http://www.microsoft.com/downl.....laylang=en
(it works in '07), or use want you want in Control Panel>Sounds
Thanks for the reply, but unfortunately this only works when mail arrives in the Inbox and is not moved elsewhere by a rule. I have both the envelope icon and sound options checked. I can only assume this is a bug since there seems to be no way to change the behavior (that I can find).
As Scott said, there is unfortunately no connection between the desktop alert/popup setting and the tray icon. I'm surprised there isn't much mention of this issue on other forums. I am looking into possibly writing an Outlook addin or general application to replicate this functionality, but I have no experience with the relevant APIs and I'm having a hard time finding useful documentation.
There is a workaround if you want the display notification to stay for more than 30 seconds. It can be kept for days actually:
http://www.howto-outlook.com/p.....ktools.htm
Written by Outlook MVP 'Roady' Sparnaaij, another brilliant Dutch guy.
Hey that forum thread was a nice find, thanks! I like this idea:
"Instead of using rules to move messages, you could use search folders to separate them into virtual folders"
I think I will try that right now.
Edit:
It is extremely unfortunate that the search folders do not support the wide variety of conditions that are present in the rules dialog, but it looks like something of this nature could solve the problem for me. I have no particular need for actual folders anyway.
Edit 2:
AHA! Categories! Modify existing rules to assign categories instead of moving the message and then set the search to pick up on mail categories. Ahhh..... success...
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