Heh, I had tried that to no avail... until I relaunched Mail.app. Now my sounds 
show up!
Thanks for the tip!
-Carl


> On May 7, 2020, at 1:55 PM, Macs R We <[email protected]> wrote:
> 
> Nope, you can still do this. Here is an example of one of my rules; notice 
> the section full of custom sounds at the end of the list:
> 
> <sounds2.jpeg>
> 
> The linchpin is just to add new sound files to your system 
> <https://www.macworld.com/article/1157724/alert.html> so they can become 
> choosable.
> 
> 
>> On May 7, 2020, at 11:28 AM, Carl Hoefs <[email protected] 
>> <mailto:[email protected]>> wrote:
>> 
>> I would like to play a custom sound file (.mp3) whenever an email arrives 
>> from a certain person.
>> 
>> In Mail.app Preferences, one can define a rule, but it's limited to choosing 
>> only a System sound to play.
>> 
>> I know that once upon a time Mail.app used to allow rule-based playing of 
>> user-supplied sound files. Did this feature get removed or morph into 
>> something unusable?
>> 
>> MacOS 10.14.6 Mojave
>> 
>> -Carl
>> 
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