New message sound and indicator in task bar

[N. J. Butzirus]

In older versions of Outlook, a sound could be played and the "new message"
indicator would appear in the Windows task bar when a new message arrived,
regardless of which folder the message landed in. In Outlook 2007, the
indicator only appears if new messages land in the Inbox. Likewise, the
sound can only be played if new messages land in the Inbox. This is very
frustrating for those of us who like to organize email form multiple accounts
in various folders, using automatic rules.

I have looked through every configuration menu that I can find, and I do not
see an option to correct this. The only working solution that I can come up
with, at the moment, is to let ALL messages from ALL accounts land in the
Inbox so the sound will play and the indicator will appear. Then, I can run
my established rules manually so all of my messages end up in the correct
folders. Of course, this is not an ideal solution.

Does anyone have any ideas?

 

[Brian Tillman]

In older versions of Outlook, a sound could be played and the "new
message" indicator would appear in the Windows task bar when a new
message arrived, regardless of which folder the message landed in. In
Outlook 2007, the indicator only appears if new messages land in the
Inbox. Likewise, the sound can only be played if new messages land in
the Inbox. This is very frustrating for those of us who like to
organize email form multiple accounts in various folders, using
automatic rules.

Your rules also have an alert action available to them. Add that action to
your rules.