Outlook.com email notification sound?

Using Chrome or if necessary Firefox is there way when using (Outlook.com)
for email to get an audible notification when an email arrives?

In other words... In Chrome using (Outlook.com) webmail it shows a
notification on the (Outlook.com) tab when there is a new email, but is
there way to have Windows make a sound when there is a new email?

Currently, I'm looking at something called "Howard" that apparently uses
the system/notification tray and probably also a sound.

Thanks.

John Doe wrote on 12/10/2014 2:04 PM:
Using Chrome or if necessary Firefox is there way when using (Outlook.com)
for email to get an audible notification when an email arrives?

In other words... In Chrome using (Outlook.com) webmail it shows a
notification on the (Outlook.com) tab when there is a new email, but is
there way to have Windows make a sound when there is a new email?

Currently, I'm looking at something called "Howard" that apparently uses
the system/notification tray and probably also a sound.

Thanks.

Obviously you don't want to use a regular email client to receive your email on your PC, which then would have an
message popup and possibly a sound?

Something like Thunderbird email client?

On Wed, 10 Dec 2014 19:04:16 +0000 (UTC), John Doe
wrote:

Using Chrome or if necessary Firefox is there way when using (Outlook.com)
for email to get an audible notification when an email arrives?

In other words... In Chrome using (Outlook.com) webmail it shows a
notification on the (Outlook.com) tab when there is a new email, but is
there way to have Windows make a sound when there is a new email?

Within the confines of a standard web browser, I don't think so, but you
could possibly create a Greasemonkey script to accomplish that. Are you
familiar with Greasemonkey?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greasemonkey
https://addons.mozilla.org/en-us/fir.../greasemonkey/

That's for Firefox, obviously, but perhaps Chrome can be twisted into doing
something similar.

Big_Al wrote:

John Doe wrote:

Using Chrome or if necessary Firefox is there way when using
(Outlook.com) for email to get an audible notification when an email
arrives?

In other words... In Chrome using (Outlook.com) webmail it shows a
notification on the (Outlook.com) tab when there is a new email, but
is there way to have Windows make a sound when there is a new email?

Currently, I'm looking at something called "Howard" that apparently
uses the system/notification tray and probably also a sound.

Obviously you don't want to use a regular email client to receive your
email on your PC, which then would have an message popup and possibly
a sound?

If all else fails that might happen, but it shouldn't be necessary. The
process, including (Outlook.com) and Firefox or Chrome, displays on the
browser tab a notification when new email arrives. It might require
cooperation from the browser, but website email should be able to play a
system sound when new email arrives, too. The lack of an audible
notification option seems silly to me.

Not to take away from other suggestions, but...

X-notifier lite seems to work well in Firefox without requiring an open
tab. It uses polling, but I suspect that's what the (Outlook.com)
browser tab uses, too.




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Thanks to the replies.




Using Chrome or if necessary Firefox is there way when using
(Outlook.com) for email to get an audible notification when an email
arrives?

In other words... In Chrome using (Outlook.com) webmail it shows a
notification on the (Outlook.com) tab when there is a new email, but
is there way to have Windows make a sound when there is a new email?

Currently, I'm looking at something called "Howard" that apparently
uses the system/notification tray and probably also a sound.

Thanks.

On 10/12/2014 19:04, John Doe wrote:
Using Chrome or if necessary Firefox is there way when using (Outlook.com)
for email to get an audible notification when an email arrives?

In other words... In Chrome using (Outlook.com) webmail it shows a
notification on the (Outlook.com) tab when there is a new email, but is
there way to have Windows make a sound when there is a new email?

Currently, I'm looking at something called "Howard" that apparently uses
the system/notification tray and probably also a sound.

Thanks.


AOL webmail can do this for you. It is free so try it out.

A glaring example of technical help from an AOL user...

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On 10/12/2014 19:04, John Doe wrote:
Using Chrome or if necessary Firefox is there way when using (Outlook.com)
for email to get an audible notification when an email arrives?

In other words... In Chrome using (Outlook.com) webmail it shows a
notification on the (Outlook.com) tab when there is a new email, but is
there way to have Windows make a sound when there is a new email?

Currently, I'm looking at something called "Howard" that apparently uses
the system/notification tray and probably also a sound.

Thanks.


AOL webmail can do this for you. It is free so try it out.



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Currently, I'm looking at something called "Howard" that apparently uses
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John Doe wrote:
Using Chrome or if necessary Firefox is there way when using (Outlook.com)
for email to get an audible notification when an email arrives?

In other words... In Chrome using (Outlook.com) webmail it shows a
notification on the (Outlook.com) tab when there is a new email, but is
there way to have Windows make a sound when there is a new email?

Currently, I'm looking at something called "Howard" that apparently uses
the system/notification tray and probably also a sound.

Thanks.

Outlook.com does not provide an option to generate a local sound.

Windows does not have a sound option for Outlook.com.

IE11 (MSFT's browser) does not have an option to generate a sound for
Outlook.com

If you need a sound, it would have to be obtained as a 3rd party tool.



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msft mvp consumer apps

X-notifier lite (1.7) working well.

Must sign in to email. Then the tab can be closed.

The corresponding Windows 8 system sound is...

"Desktop Mail Notification"





X-notifier lite seems to work well in Firefox without requiring an open
tab.