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How can I stop Outlook from expanding subfolders when they receive mail?

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Mar 15, 202617381 views
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I have several rules which mark items as read and then send them to a specific folder. Nearly all of these folders are nested within one parent folder. The issue is that usually when I get one of these messages, Outlook will expand the parent folder. I have no need for this sort of notification. Th…

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Too sad, but you cannot change this behaviour. The only way do disable folder auto-expansion is to use server-side rules. These rules are available when using Outlook + Exchange Server. Unfortunately, the limited subset of conditions and actions is …

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