Message alerts (sounds) won't work in Hotmail folders in Outlook

sulizhow · Jul 1, 2009

All are turned on, they worked in O. Express.

Roady [MVP] · Jul 1, 2009

Correct, they only play when the Hotmail folder set is set as the default.
See http://www.msoutlook.info/question/110

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