Hello,
sorry for the long quiet. I had checked and did have the sound theme turned off. Also the sound of evolution was turned off (repo included mail notification plugin). The sound of the mail notification plugin does play with every mail, but the mail filter intended sound does not play. The current version of evolution is 3.36.4-0ubuntu1 on Linux Mint 20.
Logs for that matter: Reported 1 recent messages in 'user inside lab : Incoming' 2020-11-11 20:48:14 - Applied filter "important mails" to message from user test <user outside lab> - "testsubject" Message source '04626bb5f2b61319e291551472b0aa3268e5f5de' does match requested source '04626bb5f2b61319e291551472b0aa3268e5f5de' Header 'From' value ' user test <user outside lab>' does match 'user outside lab' Finished test of message uid:AAMkAGU1ZTeiZWZiLTU2N2YtNDgyMi04MTRjLWM5NGY5NmE5NDdiNgBGAAAAAAA8yS1sIIbdSLGXuyOi0qBqBwD62kfhvwC/S7J7ukSNK0BVAAAACE+BAABNep1ucgLnSIEaPJAntZ8fAAGbvshDAAA= subject:'testsubject' from 'user inside lab : Incoming' as MATCHED Filter 'important mails' matched
Action: Set label to orange_color Action: Play sound
Rule description: important mails (enabled, for account user inside lab) If any of the following conditions are met Sender contains user outside lab Then Set Label orange_color Play Sound /usr/share/sounds/alsa/Noise.wav
Best regards,
Gaya
_________________ Hi, Evolution uses libcanberra to play sound files. Looking into the code, trying it here and by adding some error reporting I see the difference between the filter and the mail notification. The mail notification uses its own context, while the filter sound uses the gtk context. The gtk context can have disabled sound in the system Preferences, which happened to me here. When I enable theme sounds the sound is played correctly. Similarly with the Beep, it relies on the system sound theme being enabled.
I'll change the filter sound to not use the gtk context and I'll add also some debug prints to make debugging easier. Bye, Milan
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