Hello Dave, On Wed, 23 Oct 2002 08:30:59 -0700 GMT (23/10/02, 22:30 +0700 GMT), Dave Crocker wrote:
Thomas>> You apparently send the incoming messages to the folder with Thomas>> a filter. In that filter, set "Ply Sound" under the Action Thomas>> tab. > Thanks to the folks who suggested this approach. Unfortunately it > has some difficulties, for the situation I am describing. > One is that I receive many messages at once. If I have not picked up > mail for awhile -- part of a day -- it could be several hundred > messages. Imagine having lots of different sounds going off and then > trying to figure out which folder to go to. This is exactly the reason I am not using sounds. The cacophony would drive me crazy. ;-) > The second is that the use I described is that I have, perhaps, > 100-200 folders. Imagine trying to distinguish all those sounds. Another good point. I believe playing a sound makes sense only for particularly important messages, like those from your boss or your mother. > The third is that the style of use I described has me bouncing from > one folder to another, with no consistent pattern. Hence, I need to > be able to sit back and look at the full range of folders (in the > Accounts Pane) and see which ones have New messages. Playing sounds > does not permit this kind of repeated review. No, but I can now sit back, look at my folder tree, and see which folders in which accounts have new messages. -- Cheers, Thomas. Moderator der deutschen The Bat! Beginner Liste. A day without fusion is like a day without sunshine. Message reply created with The Bat! 1.62/Beta7 under Chinese Windows 98 4.10 Build 2222 A using an AMD Athlon K7 1.2GHz, 128MB RAM ________________________________________________ Current version is 1.61 | "Using TBUDL" information: http://www.silverstones.com/thebat/TBUDLInfo.html
