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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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