Windows 7 Outlook 2007 Notifications

Craig321 · 25 Oct 2009 at 12:06

Is there any way to get email notifications working under Windows 7? The rectangular window that pops up when you get a new email.

james.miller · 25 Oct 2009 at 12:09

mine is working fine, though it only pops up if the outlook window is minimised but im sure thats normal

theheyes · 25 Oct 2009 at 12:15

Mine works also, even when the screen is not minimized. Not sure what to suggest as I've not changed any notification settings - it's all vanilla.

Craig321 · 25 Oct 2009 at 12:17

Hmmm, that's strange. I'll have a look around in the notification settings.

Thanks for confirming it does work though

Craig321 · 25 Oct 2009 at 12:49

Found out the issue: for some reason you only get notifications for stuff going into your default inbox. I use rules to move each email into a separate folder so nothing goes into my main Inbox

Any way to turn notifications on for every folder?

PistolPete · 25 Oct 2009 at 13:05

I don't believe so.

theheyes · 25 Oct 2009 at 13:12

When you create a new rule for an email, you have to option to select "Play a selected sound" when the rule is applied. This is unchecked by default so worth looking at.

Craig321 · 25 Oct 2009 at 14:06

theheyes said:
When you create a new rule for an email, you have to option to select "Play a selected sound" when the rule is applied. This is unchecked by default so worth looking at.

The answer does seem to be in the rules as there are some "alert" options, however I've not been able to find the rule to pop-up the normal alert window.

james.miller · 25 Oct 2009 at 14:22

tools >> options >> preferences >> e-mail options >> advanced e-mail options

PR. · 25 Oct 2009 at 14:26

Craig321 said:
Found out the issue: for some reason you only get notifications for stuff going into your default inbox. I use rules to move each email into a separate folder so nothing goes into my main Inbox

Any way to turn notifications on for every folder?

Yer it's always been like that unfortunately, was one of the reasons why I switched to using Categories instead of folders.

Hopefully Outlook 2010 will resolve it.

Craig321 · 25 Oct 2009 at 14:32

PR. said:
Yer it's always been like that unfortunately, was one of the reasons why I switched to using Categories instead of folders.

Hopefully Outlook 2010 will resolve it.

Can you have completely different sections for categories? Or do you just have all your emails in the main Inbox with automatic categories assigned?

PR. said:
Yer it's always been like that unfortunately, was one of the reasons why I switched to using Categories instead of folders.

Hopefully Outlook 2010 will resolve it.

Hopefully. I'm really surprised Microsoft didn't add proper multiple email support in Outlook 2007. Yes, you can create rules and assign folders like I have, but surely you should be able to automatically have a separate Inbox for each account, or am I missing something?

james.miller · 25 Oct 2009 at 14:40

Craig321 said:
Can you have completely different sections for categories? Or do you just have all your emails in the main Inbox with automatic categories assigned?

Hopefully. I'm really surprised Microsoft didn't add proper multiple email support in Outlook 2007. Yes, you can create rules and assign folders like I have, but surely you should be able to automatically have a separate Inbox for each account, or am I missing something?

they dont in 2003 either from what ive been reading

Craig321 · 25 Oct 2009 at 16:45

james.miller said:
they dont in 2003 either from what ive been reading

Nope, they don't. I'm just surprised it wasn't one of the features they added in 2007.

robinbredin · 25 Oct 2009 at 18:02

Is there any way to get email notifications working under Windows 7? The rectangular window that pops up when you get a new email.

Mine is not working either, dont know what is wrong with it.

PR. · 25 Oct 2009 at 22:32

Craig321 said:
Can you have completely different sections for categories? Or do you just have all your emails in the main Inbox with automatic categories assigned?

You can create search folders which are based on separate categories, and then use a rule to automatically assign the category. It's not for everyone though.

Craig321 · 4 Nov 2009 at 22:13

Just incase anybody was wondering, I have managed to fix this now with an alert rule

http://www.techdreams.org/tips-tric...rs-of-microsoft-outlook-mailbox/1131-20090121