Outlook 2007, WinXP Home - envelope icon?

[Grace L. Judson]

Hi, all.

Just got a new machine with Office 2007 on WinXP Home.

I have multiple email accounts that all come into Outlook and get sorted via
rules into their own folders.

Under Outlook 2000, the little notification envelope worked for ALL folders
that got new mail. If I had new mail, regardless of which folder it went
to, the notification envelope showed up in my toolbar.

Under Outlook 2007, it only shows up for the generic Inbox - even though
that is NOT my default mail folder.

Any ideas?

Thanks!

Grace

 

[Roady [MVP]]

See http://www.howto-outlook.com/howto/mailalert2003.htm

Note that for Outlook 2007 you don't need to sort messages from separate
accounts by rules. You can assign it a specific delivery location by using
Tools-> Account Settings->Change Folder

 

[Grace L. Judson]

Wow - I love that Change Folder option - thank you!

The other answer doesn't quite fit what I was looking to do. I actually
loathe and despise the desktop alert popup thingie. What I wanted was
the little envelope icon in the toolbar. However, the folders trick seems
to have fixed that problem; I see that I'm now getting the envelope icon no
matter which folder the mail has been delivered to.

Woohoo! Thank you very much.

 

[Roady [MVP]]

Exactly, that's why the Change Folder is so much better than sorting
accounts by rules ;-)

You're welcome!