Windows 10: Mail notification sound doesn't play

Cliff, How many mail accounts to you have set up (not sure if this makes any difference)

I have
Outlook, gmail and iCloud - set for banners and sound - receive based on usage (tried changing to as the arrive but no difference)

Personal domain account, set for no notifications and check manually - these get auto forwarded to gmail, so only manual check when i need to delete spam from account

 

Anyone noticed any difference since the new windows update yesterday?

Seems about the same, I have had some mail notifications (from the last few hours, it seems when I receive gmail it screws up and kills them)

 

Every thin still works for me Paul. I have noticed though, the new version lets us pin more stuff like trash now*Smile and pin the accounts to start:

 

tempted to do another re install of mail/calendar

although they are mostly working now

what seems to screw it up is when gmail retrieves emails from my domain (which usually have an older date stamp than my most recent email)

 

I don't have so much experience with email settings, but... go to gmail online and check the settings there

Forwarding and POP/IMAP

 

Unfortunately googles retrieval from other emails only support POP (so it just checks every 30 mins to an hour for new)

So if I receive an email at 13:00 (direct to gmail or outlook all seems fine)
If gmail retrieves an email after that, could be dated 12:50 so older than these, then I get no notification and this seems to break notifications until I open the mail app up

I need to do more testing but this seems a pattern, I might just try adding gmail as an imap account and see if this makes a difference

 

Try importing Gmail to Outlook then delete Gmail from the app.: https://dub117.mail.live.com/default...imp%3fiaep%3d1

 

That was something I thought of, but prefer to keep it separate if possible

I have now removed all accounts from mail app (except outlook) so will see if this is more reliable, it did crash a couple of times while removing gmail

if all goes well like this, will slowly add my others to see when it starts failing

 

There is always the option if you have Chrome to let Gmail run in the background in thy sys tray.

 

They've changed the layout and it's much better for desktop.
I'm happy about that. *Smile

The background in the left panel is a nice touch too.

 

Notifications are still coming randomly. I too have 3 acc (a gmail, an imap Telenet, and outlook which I don't use). I also think that these multiple accounts causes the problem. I have a feeling Paul that you are getting close to the solution. I'm looking forward to your tutorial "how to solve notifications problems" *Wink
An improvement for me is that all the mail accounts are now listed in the left pane.

 

So far it's working well with just having Outlook in there, I have received notifications about all emails

However, if the system does any type of system maintenance, it takes all mail notifications out of action centre, I cannot find anything that has crashed though in Event viewer or reliability history

I will keep on with my mission to search for solutions and find a permanent fix (unless MS beat me to it)

 

Then your Bulldog avatar is very fitting*Biggrin

 

Having a similar issue; I have Mail set up to show banners and play a sound. Confirmed in Notification settings. I set up my sound scheme to play AOL's old "You've got mail!" when I get a new mail. Set it as Desktop Mail Notification. Also have it set as New Mail Notification, but Windows 10 still insists on playing the Generic Notification sound set as Notification. I don't want to change that, as I know that if I do, every time I get a notification, "You've got mail!" Don't want that; it'll get old.