The first e-mail account I added to Outlook would have a small semi-transparent box pop-up whenever I got a new e-mail. This would have the sender and the first sentence of the bod and fades away in a few seconds. This would happen even if I had Outlook minimized. For some reason my other e-mail accounts don't do this, how do I set it up? The first account uses Exchange Server so I don't know if that's why.

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I'm surprised Outlook only does this for the default mailbox.

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For displaying alerts on new email arriving in other folders than the default Inbox, the solution would be to use Rules. See this link for detailed step-by-step guide to do that. Most important is step 9 to make sure this runs ahead of all other rules. This bolg post has a brief version of the same with screenshots if that is easier to follow.

Also an article from Microsoft Office online help on same topic for more info.

Mail -> Message arrival -> Display Alert and Enable preview for Rights Protected messages

Outlook options - Message Arrival Alert

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