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
> > > > 
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