Windows 10: Mail Notification Question

finally...looks like mail and calendar notifications are working. I don't know if MS sent out a fix tonight or if it was something I did. Here is what I did:

1) Deleted all the accounts in my mail/calendar app and set them up again.
2) in mail app I sent emails to from one account to the other account (I have two - one gmail and one outlook)
3) went into calendar and made a new event (for 30 minutes later when the computer would be off)
4) turned computer into sleep
5) came back 30 minutes later and woke the computer and saw my calendar and mail live tiles working and the action center notification was also showing the alerts

btw the action center/notification button in the bottom right screen tray really should turn red or bounce around when you miss a notification. Currently it blends in too much with the other icons and is hard to see.

 

Thanks for posting that, BRKING.

Don't know if they updated the apps yet either. If not, your fix points to communications with the server. What you performed may have fix that. We'll see. Please report if that lasts, won't you?

 

and just like that my mail notifications have died. The first two I received and the last 4 I have not. The Action Center is a barren wasteland. Might as well be a tumbleweed rolling through it.

 

That's exactly how it goes for me

try a few things and every seems to be working fine
a random amount of hours later it all just gives up again

If I leave mail open, not minimised, then everything is fine, its when mail auto suspends itself (when minimised) or closed I get issues

 

The more I see of these symptoms the more I think it is a Windows service that is failing. It gets fixed for awhile when you guys correct it, but then somehow it fails. This is very similar to the no sleep issue for some in 8.1. Some kind of daunting, elusive bug. Then again it's working for some. Go figure. My thoughts for whatever they're worth.

 

I have had similar problems, random notifications, not able to open mail app, etc. Solution for me was I stopped running Malwarebytes Pro on start up. Notifications now working, mail app now working.

 

I agree, but I cant find anything that failing

for the last few days I have opened mail and left it running, as long as I don't close it or minimise it, everything is working fine, all notifications received

 

Never considered Malwarebytes might be causing the problem. I'll disable it tonight and see if that fixes the problem.

 

Just to clarify are you saying in MBAM Pro "Advanced Settings" uncheck Start Malwarebytes Anti- malware with Windows?
I am going to check the MBAM forum for any notices.
I completely uninstalled Norton Security Suite and things seem better but that has happened before then gone back to bad. I think it is too soon to say uninstalling Norton is a fix. I am using Defender for now.

 

I found something interesting on the MBAM forum. Here is a quote from the forum.

"Upgrading the Windows OS on top of an existing version can have unpredictable side effects, especially for security programs."

The recommended solution from MBAM is to uninstall and reinstall MBAM using the Clean Removal Process. Additional details can be found here.

https://forums.malwarebytes.org/inde...s-10-start-up/

Personally, I think the reverse is also true Security programs can have unpredictable side effects on the OS upgrade. I wish I had thought of disabling NORTON and MBAM before starting my Windows 10 upgrade.

I am currently saving my files to my 1 TB external hard drive, then I am going to uninstall MBAM and Norton (already uninstalled using the Norton Removal Tool). After that I am planning to do a CLEAN INSTALL of WINDOWS 10.

 

Ekhm...

1. Clean installation.
2. Turned off:
- Defender
- firewall
- av software (Panda Cloud)
3. No MBAB, no Norton, no other 'security' app.
4. All notifications are enabled.
5. All settings are correct.
6 Tried ALL solutions from this thread and few others.

NOTHING! Mail notifications does not work for me... It does not matter whether the program is running or not.

I give up. Going back to Foxmail.

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edit: Foxmail can wait few hours... Just downloading new cumulative update (KB3081436). We'll se...

I found on another forum:
Mary Jo Foley reported this morning That a fix was coming within 24-48 hours. per MS. I'm guessing it will be in today's patch.
The fix will come via WU.

edit 2: Nothing has changed. This app sux :/

 

Well, any app sucks when they don't work correctly. Don't blame you for using something else if your mail is important. Even if for the time being. I'm retired so my situation is different, besides I have 8.1 to fall back on.

You report there's a fix on the way, so it won't be long.

 

Correct, until its fixed I will just use MBAM on demand, Mail has not missed a beat since turning MBAM off. Its working for me but it seems lots of people are having different antivirus issues.

 

I don't want to get everyones hopes up but my mail and calendar alerts are working now and oddly enough MS pushed out a windows update today

 

That's cool. Please let us know how it goes.

Although getting them, my email notification come much later in my 10 than on my Windows phone. This also leads me to believe it's a bug in a service. For me only a delay. For others, whether the app is open or closed, it must be a service that doesn't catch the ping of a server once mail arrives there.