If you have a need of displaying the desktop alert when new message arrives in the subfolder, you can create a rule to solve it, please do it as follows.
- Get into any folder under the specified email account and open the Rules and Alerts dialog box.
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Click Rules > Manage Rules & Alerts in the Move group under Home tab.
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- You might find the option via Tools > Rules and Alerts.
- In the Rules and Alerts dialog box, click New Rule under E-mail Rules tab. See screenshot:
- In the first Rules Wizard dialog box, click Apply rule on messages I receive in Outlook 2010 and 2013, or click Check messages when they arrives in Outlook 2007. And then click the Next button.
- In the second Rules Wizard dialog box, do not select any condition and click the Next button. And then click the OK button in the popping up prompt box. See screenshot:
- In the following Rules and Wizard dialog box, check the display a Desktop Alert box in Step 1, then click the Finish button directly.
- Click the OK button in the popping up prompt box.
- When it returns to the Rules and Alert dialog box, please click the OK button.
- From now on, when you receiving new email message no matter in the Inbox folder or the subfolders, the desktop alert will be displayed.