[MlMt] Silencing the beep when mail is checked

Paul Hoffman phoffman at proper.com
Mon Jul 27 17:29:35 EDT 2015


On 27 Jul 2015, at 14:00, Bill Cole wrote:

> On 27 Jul 2015, at 14:16, Paul Hoffman wrote:
>
>> Greetings. I really dislike the frog-beep when MailMate checks my 
>> mail, and it disturbs those around me. I have already selected "None" 
>> for "Sound" in Preferences -> Counters, but I still hear the beep. 
>> Clues?
>
> The UI in "Counters" is a challenge...
>
> There are 4 independent sets of settings there: one for each corner of 
> the Dock icon a counter can appear in. Each has its own Sound option. 
> You select which Counter you are dealing with by the unlabeled square 
> of radio buttons on the left side, so even if a Counter isn't set to 
> show on the dock icon, it is identified by where it would be if it 
> was.

Did that, still beeps. That is, when selecting the radio button in each 
of the four positions, "Sound" now shows "None". Or am I missing 
something more subtle?

--Paul Hoffman


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