Re: [Evolution] New mail sound notification

[Eric Lambart <ximian nomeaning net>]

I'm doing exactly what you're talking about, Christopher.

I have a filter I named "unfiltered", with the following critereon:
Expression: #t

This expression just matches ANY e-mail, according an Evolution
hacker... Not Zed, I think it was.

The filter action is "Play Sound" with my chosen WAV file.

Three things to note about using this type of notification:
1. This filter absolutely must be the LAST filter in your list of
incoming filters
2. All your other filters must have their last action set to "Stop
processing", to prevent the last filter from being triggered.
3. This filter will cause a sound to be played for EVERY matching
message.  For this reason you probably want a very simple, short sound
to play.

If you just want one single sound to be played when messages are checked
no matter how many messages end up in the Inbox, you're out of luck.

I can think of ways to accomplish this using the "Shell Command" action,
but I rarely end up with more than 3 or 4 new messages at a time in my
Inbox (thanks to efficient filtering of the rest), so this works fine
for me as-is.

HTH
Eric

On Wed, 2003-03-26 at 10:46, Christopher Warner wrote:
> Ok I thought I had this pegged earlier but am running into one problem.
>
> To have a sound for just one folder, just turn off the generic mail
> notification sound, and add a sound action to the filter that populates
> that folder.
>
> What happens when that one folder is your Inbox? So I don't have a
> filter that populates it, what happens is that after every thing has
> been filtered by evolution on my inbox; from my mailing list
> subscriptions etc etc the mail that's left in my Inbox is the email I
> want the sound to be played on.

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