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Eliminate sounds for new junk mail in Mail Apps
I just posted this in response to a question in the Forums, then realized that many users who could benefit from it might not see it in the Forums ... to stop Mail from sounding off at the arrival of new junk mail, do the following:
  1. In Preferences -> Accounts, set the new mail sound to none.

  2. In Preferences -> Rules, move the Junk Mail rule to the top of the list, and set the last action to be performed for this rule to "Stop evaluating rules."

  3. Add a new rule with the condition set to "Account" and selecting your account (you can add more than one condition for multiple accounts). Then, the action to be performed is to play the sound of your choosing. For multiple accounts, you can set up different sounds for each account simply by setting up separate rules for each account.
With this simple rule, you will no longer here "new mail" sounds when all you've received is yet more spam...
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Eliminate sounds for new junk mail in Mail
Authored by: yubbie2 on Jun 11, '03 11:19:19AM

i haven't tried this yet, but wouldn't this cause the "new mail" sound to be played for *every* new mail message received? that is, if you get 4 emails at once, it should play the sound 4 times because it will filter each message individually.

does that make sense? someone let me know if that's right or not...



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Eliminate sounds for new junk mail in Mail
Authored by: cidion on Jun 11, '03 12:18:32PM

Unless i did it weird, it only beeped once for the two emails that I sent myself from hotmail.

thanks for the directions.

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Eliminate sounds for new junk mail in Mail
Authored by: xavierbdm on Jun 11, '03 04:12:17PM

The new mail sound is not playing per individual mail, but every time the pop/imap interrogation returns mails.
I have had my mail sound (a nice arrow shot taken from the Monty Python "Holy Grail", but without the part where the servant with the arrow planted in the chest remarks before dying "Message for our Sir"...) since Mail was my main mail client.
And it just comes out once when the mail pick up gets new mail(s).
Another nice touch I have added, thanks to the good folks on the Salling Clicker forum, is the use of Salling Clicker's very nice screen message effect (if you have no idea, check <a href="http://clicker.salling.com" target="new">http://clicker.salling.com</a> and watch the video), through a script that runs on a rule "On new mail" and tells me in a transparent overlay whom the mail is from and its subject.
It means I need not to go and check the mail when I hear the sound.



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How about sharing?
Authored by: jiclark on Jun 11, '03 07:20:18PM

...that "nice screen message effect..."

I went to Salling Clicker's site, but found nothing like what you mention. I'd love to be able to have that functionality though. Could you share some more specifics???

Thx,
John-o

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ok, here are details
Authored by: xavierbdm on Jun 12, '03 06:02:58AM
sorry the video was actually not presented on the software page, but on the salling home page: http://www.salling.com the video itself is here:
http://homepage.mac.com/jonassalling/Shareware/Clicker/iTunesControllerDemo.html
I encourage you to try this programme, it is magic if you have a bluetooth phone; if you don't, the shareware aspect does not limits the use of message displaying...
The script to use is there
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/ericssonclient/message/2649
You might want to edit it a bit to take away the part that display messages on phone (as you might not have a BlueTooth phone), and then you put the script in your mail rule (for me the same that does the sound of incoming mail).

Only issue: it only shows the last mail (but as I set my mail check to every five mins, usually there are few simultaneous mails)

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Use "Sender in Address book"
Authored by: josephaw on Jun 11, '03 03:05:38PM

I set my normal sound to POP and then created a rule that says
If the Sender is in my Address Book then play my mail sound.
Seems to work 99% of the time.
Joe



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Eliminate sounds for new junk mail in Mail
Authored by: mmouse on Jun 12, '03 12:51:26PM

Terrific hint! It has helped me so much!

One addition -- you can set your 'play sound' rule for all mail by setting the condition to "Every Message" rather than specifying an account. This way if you have multiple accounts (like I do), you only need one rule to cover all of them.

--Scott



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Eliminate sounds for new junk mail in Mail
Authored by: HFTobeason on Nov 22, '03 07:42:52PM

I may just be an idiot, but I think Panther Mail (1.3) breaks this hint. There doesn't seem to be any way to get Mail to NOT play a new mail sound when it receives Junk. Corrections? Ideas?



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Eliminate sounds for new junk mail in Mail
Authored by: Maccer on Jan 04, '04 08:38:15AM

I have the same problem, when i ad a rule that says to stop evaluating rules, my Junk filter does no longer work? Anyone have the same problem?



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Eliminate sounds for new junk mail in Mail
Authored by: pburch on Feb 03, '04 01:34:32PM

This hint is very simple and obvious, but I didn't figure it out for myself, so was very glad to see it. It works.



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