cxuesong / outlookfoldernotifier

Shows notifications for some of the sub-folders in Outlook.

Outlook Folder Notifier

Shows notifications for some of the sub-folders in Outlook.

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Motivation

As it is commonly observed till Office 2016, though Outlook provides notification for new e-mails recieved in the "inbox" folder, it won't show such notifications for the received e-mails in any other folders (e.g. IMAP folders). Though there are already some tips on the internet to enable notifications for all incoming e-mails, sometimes we just want those which come into spam folder come silently. Thus I decided to spend a day writing this rudimentary Outlook add-in to solve the problem.

Prerequisite

• Microsoft Office Outlook 2013/2016 running on Windows
• .NET Framework 4.6.1
• VSTO 2010

Usage

• Download & Install the plugin, the installer should automatically download and install the requirements if missing
• Open Outlook
• Open "Folder" ribbon tab, you may see "Folder Notifier" ribbon group to the right side
• Click "Monitored Folders"
• Check the folders that you want to receive notifications about, and click "OK"
• Voila. You can get yourself a new mail to test it out now.

Troubleshooting

If you bump into similar error as follows when installing

The value of the property 'type' cannot be parsed. The error is: Could not load file or assembly 'Microsoft.Office.Business.Applications.Fba, Version = 14.0.0.0, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=71e9bce111e9429c' or one of its dependencies. The system cannot find the file specified. (C:\Program Files (x86)\Common Files\Microsoft\Share\VSTO\10.0\VSTOInstaller.exe.Config line10)

You may consider comment out (suggested) or remove the content between <webRequestModules> in VSTOInstaller.exe.Config located in the path as mentioned above.

outlookfoldernotifier's Issues

Installation Issue/Windows 7

When trying to run setup I get the following, Windows 7 Pro, Outlook 2016

COMException in Microsoft Exchange sub-folder when Outlook is working without network connection

When there is a Microsoft Exchange account in the Outlook, and the PC doesn't have any available network connections (i.e. completely off-line, rather than Outlook working in off-line mode), COMException will raise when checking for the folder information.

To be more exact, COMException (0x8834010F) will raise in ThisAddIn.RefreshFolderMonitors.VisitFolder when accessing the property of 1 Folder of the Folders collection of the Microsoft Exchange root folder. And COMException (0x0xA304010F) will raise in MonitoredFoldersDialog.ShowDialog.PopulateFolders for the similar operation.

For now, I simply suppressed the exception, but it is still open to further investigations.