Sometimes we do not check our mail box for a long time when we are busy with some other task. This could result in missing some important notification or message sent to us that has to be acted upon immediately.

To avoid this we can set up Lotus Notes to give an alert when a new mail is received in the inbox. Follow the steps below to enable the alert.

1. Login into your Lotus Notes account and go to File, Preferences and User Preferences.
2. Open the Mail tab, at the general view there is a section called When New Mail Arrives, there you will find options to enable option to Show a Pop-up.
3. Enable the option to get a pop up message everytime a new mail is received.
4. There are additional features such as providing alert with a sound. You can also choose the sound to be played from a file in your system .
5. Click OK and save the settings to get the alert whenever a new mail is received.