

Unused and inactive icons in the Notification Area are automatically hidden quite fast. Make sure the envelope isn’t hidden in the Notification Area Hiding the envelope via a right click disables the option entirely.

The proper way to temporarily hide the envelope is to mark a message as read in Outlook or to select an already read message and press CTRL+ENTER

If the envelope icon is not shown when you expected it to be shown, the first thing is to check if the option is still enabled If you want a new mail alert for messages that have been moved by a rule, you can create a New Mail Alert rule. The icon is also not shown for additional mailboxes which have been configured from a single Exchange account.įor manual Send/Receive actions and the first Send/Receive action after starting Outlook, the envelope icon is often not shown either. When a message is caught by the Junk E-mail filter or moved by a rule, the envelope icon is not shown. The envelope will show for messages that are delivered to the default Inbox for each account.
