How To Enable Mail Notification In Outlook?

Microsoft Outlook allows you to send and receive email messages, store names, manage calendars, store contacts, and track your daily tasks. There are also some cool features that allow you to be more productive during work time. The new mail desktop alert is a handy pop-up alert for new emails. But the duration of an alert message depends on the version of Windows you are using. Old mail alert for Outlook 2002 and previous versions have an alert box New Mail has arrived. Would you like to read it now? whereas the new mail desktop alert for Outlook 2003, 2007, 2010, and 2013 pop up with the sender name, subject, and first two lines of the message. So, we shall now see how to enable mail notification in Outlook.

 

Enabling Mail Notification In Outlook

Step 1:

It is very simple to enable Outlook mail notifications. Follow the below steps.

Step 2:

Open your Outlook. You would be able to see the primary inbox section with all the received emails.

Step 3:

Go to File and you will see the Account information window.

Step 4:

Tap on Options, and then click on Mail.

Step 5:

Scroll down and visit the Message arrival option.

Step 6:

Kindly check all the checkboxes: Play the sound, Briefly change the mouse pointer, show an envelope icon in the taskbar, Display a Desktop Alert.

Step 7:

Now click on OK.

Step 8:

If you want to disable the notification, you can follow the same steps and uncheck the boxes to do the same.