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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.

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  1. 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
  2. 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
  3. In the next screen you can select the conditions.
    In our case we select: from people or public group.
  4. In the bottom section, click “people or public group” to select the address(es) from your Address Book.
  5. Click Next to go to the Actions screen.
  6. Select the action: play a sound.
  7. 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.
  8. Click next to advance to the next screen to set any exceptions when needed.
  9. Once you’ve done that (or skipped that), click Next to give the rule a name.
  10. 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”.

Double New Mail Sound

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.

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.

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

Not getting any alert (sound or notification banner) about receiving new email? You can configure Windows 10 Mail app to show a banner notification in the Notification & Action Center, and play a sound whenever a new email message arrives. In this tutorial we’ll show you how to turn on or off notification banner & sound for Windows 10 built-in Mail app.

How to Turn On / Off Notification Banner & Sound for Windows 10 Mail App

  1. First, make sure app notifications are enabled in Windows 10. To do this, press the Windows logo key + I shortcut to open the Settings app, and then click System.
  2. Select the Notifications & actions tab in the left side. Scroll down to the Notification section and turn on “Get notifications from apps and other senders“.
  3. Now, open the built-in Mail app. Click the Settings icon at the bottom of the left-hand navigation panel, and then select Notifications from the pop-up menu.
  4. Check the box labeled “Show a notification banner” to enable new mail notification banner in the lower-right corner of the screen. If you wish to hear a sound when a new email is received, check “Play a sound” option.
  5. If you don’t want to get any sound or banner notifications for every mail message you receive, just turn off the “Show notifications in the action center” option. You can apply the same notification settings for all your email accounts in the Mail app.

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