Re: [Evolution] Mail arrival sound

[Not Zed <notzed ximian com>]

On Wed, 2004-06-16 at 18:18 -0700, Lonnie Borntreger wrote:
> On Wed, 2004-06-16 at 16:29 -0700, Des Dougan wrote:
> > I'm running 1.5.9, and was able to confirm a suspicion I've had for a
> > while - on my system (SuSE 9.0, KDE 3.1), I'm only hearing my mail
> > arrival sound when a) I'm in the folder where the message is being
> > delivered to (sorted via server-side procmail processing dovecot IMAP
> > mail) or b) when the message is not sorted and is therefore delivered to
> > an IMAP Inbox (I have two IMAP accounts set up on this box).
> > 
> > Can anyone else confirm this - I assume there's not a bug open, as I
> > recall Jeff saying it seemed to work for him.
>
> I can confirm that I get sounds from all gnome and kde apps that I run,
> except for new mail notification on evolution.  Even clicking on the OK
> for a meeting reminder generates a sound, but not new mail.
>
> I have filters turned on for all my IMAP accounts.  This worked fine for
> me until I updated to gnome 2.6 - which was a while ago.
>
> I'm running Mandrake Cooker.
>
> I think I'll create a POP account and see if that does mail
> notification.
This is a different issue.  No sound from evo at all.  I don't know why, we just call gnome_play_sound.

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Michael Zucchi <notzed ximian com> Novell's Evolution and Free Software Developer