Well, you can set up another "filter" that doesn't actually move any mail but plays a sound if various criteria are *not* met...
-Mark Gordon On Wed, 2003-03-26 at 13:46, 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. > > > On Wed, 2003-03-26 at 13:19, Mark Gordon wrote: > > Two ways to get a sound when receiving email: > > > > 1) The generic approach: having the mail preferences, new mail > > notification set to play a sound file. > > 2) The specific aproach: having a filter play a sound file when specific > > criteria are met. One could also use different sounds for different > > filters. > > > > 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. This assumes your folders get populated by Evolution > > filters rather than by procmail or some other mechanism. That wasn't > > specified. > > > > -Mark Gordon > > > > On Wed, 2003-03-26 at 12:53, Christopher Warner wrote: > > > Is there anyway to not play a sound for the rest of my folders except > > > for one? If I use the filter method for "Play Sound" and don't select > > > anything I get the File does not exist dialog. I don't want a sound to > > > play at all for these other folders the only way around it is to just > > > play an empty wav file I guess. > > > > > > On Wed, 2003-03-26 at 11:56, Mark Gordon wrote: > > > > "Play sound" is one of the possible filter actions. > > > > > > > > -Mark Gordon > > > > > > > > On Tue, 2003-03-25 at 22:03, Christopher Warner wrote: > > > > > Is it possible to get evolution to play a sound on new mail for one > > > > > folder? > > > > > > > > > > The situation as it stands is that every time I get new mail in a sub > > > > > folder of my inbox a sound is played. I only want sound to be played for > > > > > a certain folder; my main inbox. My other folders I'll go through on the > > > > > weekend or when I have free time. The frequency in which I receive mail > > > > > in email lists such as this one and others makes for an annoying > > > > > experience when it comes to the notification of new mail (playing a > > > > > sound). Even if I only check for new mail every hour. > > > > > > > > > > Any info on this would be cool.. The way it looks from the user side of > > > > > things Evolution will play the sound file on all new mail regardless of > > > > > what it is. If that's the case I vote for "New Mail Notification" > > > > > functionality =) > > > > > > > > > > Thanks a lot gals/guys, > > > > > Christopher Warner > > > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > > > evolution maillist - [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > > http://lists.ximian.com/mailman/listinfo/evolution > > _______________________________________________ evolution maillist - [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.ximian.com/mailman/listinfo/evolution
