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Authored by: mingking on Oct 30, '02 09:00:06PM

I too subscribe to a number of mailing lists and I wanted to have a different sound play when receiving mailing lists versus other mail. This is slightly different than what the original poster wanted, plus his suggestion resulted in no sound playing for non-filed mail. My solution gives me a bit more control.

I already had rules that file targeted message types in special folders. I then added a special sound to each of those rules so that I now get a custom sound per mailing list.

I still wanted to get a sound when unfiltered mail comes in. So I then created a default rule that plays a sound when no other rule files the message. The rule criteria to use is 'Every Message'. Since I put it last in the rules, it gets called after all the other filtering is done.

The one last trick is that in each rule that assigns a custom sound I added as the last action to 'Stop evaluating rules.' Otherwise you will get the sound from the first rule that files the message, and then the default sound. Now I can assign custom sounds for each type of incoming mail.



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