[MlMt] Silencing the beep when mail is checked

Bill Cole mmlist-20120120 at billmail.scconsult.com
Mon Jul 27 18:54:12 EDT 2015


On 27 Jul 2015, at 17:29, Paul Hoffman wrote:

> 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?

No, I'm just apparently wrong.

Never let that stop me though... How about the MailMate settings in the 
Notifications pane of System Preferences?


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