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I'm using Outlook 2010, but I suspect my question applies to all versions. I'm part of some distribution lists that send an email to me every ~10 minutes. I want to receive those emails, but treat them as low priority - so I have a custom Outlook rule that places them in a subfolder of my Inbox and "clears the Message Flag". (that's the little envelope icon in the system tray that tells you that new mail has arrived)
I get "regular" mail that's not processed by any rules, so it winds up in my Inbox. The envelope icon appears for those situations, so that's good.
The problem is, once I get one of my "junk" emails - it clears the envelope icon out of the system tray and I'm unaware that new mail has arrived.
I ideally want any "regular mail" to show the envelope icon and I want my "junk mail" to never trigger the envelope icon to display.
How can I do that?
but won't that send the mail to the "Junk Mail" folder? I don't want to do that, I just want Outlook to recognize that "this incoming message isn't worth showing the envelope icon for" – Mike – 2010-11-10T17:27:56.597
no. marking an email as read should not change what folder your emails are placed in. that would still be controlled by your rule as well. – Xantec – 2010-11-10T17:32:32.713
ok, but I don't really want it to be marked as read either (sorry, should've mentioned that). I want my "junk" mail to be moved to the right folder, still unread, but the envelope icon not to display to alert me "hey, there's new mail here you need to read!" – Mike – 2010-11-10T19:35:44.457
updated answer. it is a solution, but perhaps not one easily implemented. – Xantec – 2010-11-10T20:05:39.977