Re: [Evolution] sound on mail

[Miguel Cavazos <mike calle69 net>]

why they dont like this? its very usefull and more if we can have a
diferent sound on each folder that way we could know if its a mail of a
list or a mail of family etc etc well even where is the wishlist?
On vie, 2001-09-14 at 04:10, Eric Lambart wrote:
> Unbelievably for those of us who care, and the fact that every major GUI
> mailer I've ever seen supports this feature, the answer is NO (though
> this was requested exactly a year ago today, if not before, with bug
> #556!).
>
> In defense of the Ximian folks, it must be said that there don't seem to
> be many requests for this feature in the bug database, so maybe not that
> many people care.  I'm pretty sure it will be added after 1.0 is
> released, though.
>
> If you are up to compiling Evolution yourself, you could take advantage
> of Jon Nall's patch to add this feature, which is included in bug #856:
> http://bugzilla.ximian.com/show_bug.cgi?id=856
>
> I thought he had posted a newer version of the patch on the mailing
> list, but I'm not sure.  I know I'll be doing this once 1.0 comes out. 
> For now I'm (just barely) content to download the prebuilt snapshots.
>
> Meanwhile, you can do what I do--turn off auto mail-check in Evolution,
> and then add the Gnome Mail Check applet to your Gnome panel, and have
> it play your sound for you.  When mail comes in, have Evo retrieve it.
>
> Hope this helps.
> --Eric
>
> On Thu, 2001-09-13 at 15:30, Miguel Cavazos wrote:
> > is there any way to make evolution make a sound or play a wav or
> > something when new email arrives into my folders? or play diferent
> > sounds for each folder when it gets email something?
> >
> >
> >
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