GNOME Bugzilla – Bug 335538
New mail notification should only play sound when filters have been run.
Last modified: 2006-03-23 17:29:27 UTC
The new mail notification setting allows you to play a sound when a new mail arrives. It currently plays every time a new mail arrives. In my opinion, the sound should only be played if the new mail is still there after the filters have been run. I use filters to move away messages of low importance (which come quite often) and would like it to only play the sound when the mail persists in INBOX after filtering. I'm not sure if this is what preferred by everyone though. Having a notification sound for mails that get filtered out is quite annoying though.
not good in my opinion. i use filters for example to sort my mailing list emails into seperate folders. i *want* to hear that there is new mail, not only in my inbox. this also depends on bug 311512.
(In reply to comment #1) > i use filters for example to sort my mailing list > emails into seperate folders. i *want* to hear that there is new mail, not > only in my inbox. My complaint is coming from the same situation: mailing lists trigger the sound. I receive quite a lot of mailing lists and would rather only be warned when a high importance mail arrives. Currently the sound buzzes every 10 minutes, without making a distinction between important "only-to-me" mails and mailing lists, which renders it totally useless.
This does not depend on bug 311512, but actually is a duplicate. *** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 311512 ***
Ruben, a quick workaround is this: * Add the "Stop Processing" action to any filter that moves mails. Similarly, you can even create new Filters with Stop Processing only, that match on "low importance" mails which you do not want to be notified about. * Add a new Filter as the last one in your Filters list. Condition "Match All", action "Play Sound" or "Beep". * Disable the global "Play Sound" option for incoming mail.