Thanks.. that works well.. :)

On Wed, 2003-03-26 at 14:10, Eric Lambart wrote:
> 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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