When I receive an email from a certain contact or Contact Group, can I get a different “New Email” sound than the default?

You can set a custom sound for a specific contact (or by a variety of any other specific message property) by using a rule.

Open the Rules and Alerts wizard:
- Outlook 2007 and previous
  Tools-> Rules and Alerts…
- Outlook 2010, Outlook 2013 and Outlook 2016
  File-> Manage Rules & Alerts
Press the New Rule… button and start with a blank rule:
- Outlook 2003
  Start from a blank rule
- Outlook 2007
  Check messages when they arrive
- Outlook 2010, Outlook 2013 and Outlook 2016
  Apply rule on messages I receive
In the next screen you can select the conditions.
In our case we select: from people or public group.
In the bottom section, click “people or public group” to select the address(es) from your Address Book.
Click Next to go to the Actions screen.
Select the action: play a sound.
In the bottom section click “a sound” to select a sound file from your computer.
- Note that you should use a wav-file for this.
Click next to advance to the next screen to set any exceptions when needed.
Once you’ve done that (or skipped that), click Next to give the rule a name.
Click Finish and then OK to close the open windows.

Via the “Play a Sound” rule action, you can hear who is emailing you.

Note: You can of course make many variations with this rule. For instance, you can opt to only hear a sound for people who are in your Contacts folder and disable the default sound in Outlook altogether (see below). For this you must use the condition “sender is in specified Address Book”.

Select a condition, and what to do with the message based on the condition. For example, to move messages with a certain title to a specific folder, select the Subject contains condition, select Move the item to folder, select or create a New folder, and then select OK. You can set a custom sound for a specific contact (or by a variety of any other specific message property) by using a rule. Open the Rules and Alerts wizard: Outlook 2007 and previous Tools- Rules and Alerts Outlook 2010, Outlook 2013 and Outlook 2016 File- Manage Rules & Alerts; Press the New Rule button and start with a blank rule. Fix 1 – Main Setting. From Outlook, select “ File ” “ Options “. Select “ Mail ” in the left pane. In the “ Message arrival ” area is a setting for When new messages arrive. Check or uncheck the “ Play a sound ” box. Also ensure the “ Show New Mail Desktop Alert ” selection is chosen. Hello, I am running Office 2016 on Windows 10. I have 2 exchange accounts I am connecting with in Outlook. Both accounts, when receiving emails popup to the right the Windows 10 Notification and make the sound the Action center logo goes white and then when the popup disappears, the notification icon goes blank again and notification is erased from Action Center.

Double New Mail Sound

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When a new message arrives, you could now hear a double sound; the default Outlook sound and the one we just configured to play via a rule.

Best emulator legend of zelda ocarina of time. You can work around this by disabling the default sound in Outlook and instead create an extra “play a sound” rule with the default Windows Notify Email.wav sound.

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Additionally, add the condition “stop processing rules” action to the rule we created for the specific contact and sort the rules in such a way that the rule for the specific contact is listed above the one for playing the generic sound.

To disable the default email sound in Outlook go to;

Outlook 2007 and previous
Tools-> Options…-> E-mail Options…-> Advanced E-mail Options…-> section: When new items arrive in my Inbox-> option: Play a sound
Outlook 2010, Outlook 2013 and Outlook 2016
File-> Options-> section: Mail-> option group: Message arrival-> option: Play a sound