# MS Outlook: Play a sound for separate Mailboxes?

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ms-outlook-play-a-sound-for-separate-mailboxes/229547>\
**Category:** Factual Questions\
**Created:** [February 16, 2004, 9:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ms-outlook-play-a-sound-for-separate-mailboxes/229547 "2004-02-16T21:03:37Z")\
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**Post date:** [February 16, 2004, 9:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ms-outlook-play-a-sound-for-separate-mailboxes/229547/1 "2004-02-16T21:03:37Z")

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This one is driving me batty.

I have added additional mailboxes to my email at work for microsoft exchange. And I’m trying to setup MS Outlook (not express) to play sounds so that when I recieve a message in one of these mailboxes, it plays a sound. I cannot get this to work. The sound will only play for my default Inbox. But I have 2 other Inboxes that I would like to hear a sound for too.

The address for the mailbox is “Support”. I tried setting up a rule, as follows:

> [@](#):
>
> Apply this rule after the message arrives  
> sent to Support  
> play C:\WINNT\Media\ringin.wav

Doesn’t work.

Something I noticed in the Rules Configuration is the ‘Run Now’ button. From there, I can tell a rule to to run now by selecting which one I want to run, and there is an option to tell it which folder to run it on. This way, I know the rule works, but is not permanent. How can I tell these rules to run on my other Inboxes all the time?

I cannot really install 3rd party software to make this happen, these are restricted Win 2000 machines, so that’s out.

Any suggestions?