[MlMt] new mail notification sound

[John D. Muccigrosso]

> On Thu, 19 Apr 2012, Benny Kj?r Nielsen wrote:
>
>> On 19 Apr 2012, at 0:38, Baron Fujimoto wrote:
>>
>>> As far as I can tell, MailMate should not configured to play any 
>>> sounds
>>> when new mail arrives, yet whenever a new message arrives in the 
>>> INBOX
>>> folder of my source, the "glass" sound plays.  The only place I 
>>> could find
>>> that seemed relevant was Preference > Counters > Sound. Am I missing
>>> correct place to turn this off somewhere?
>>
>> Not really. You are just the victim of bad user interface design.
>>
>> MailMate allows you to configure 4 counters, one for each corner of 
>> the dock icon. This is what is illustrated by the four dots in the 
>> left side of the Counters preferences pane. You simply need to find 
>> the counter with the ?Glass? sound and then change it to ?None?.
>>
>> Originally, the Counters interface was a quick temporary solution. I 
>> still plan to change how this works, but it is not yet a high 
>> priority. I'll see if I can change the wording used below the dots to 
>> be less ambiguous.
>
> Ah, I see how it works now.  I had assumed the settings in the right 
> side
> of that preferences panel were independent of the positioning settings
> on the left side.  I see now that they are per position setting.  I've
> found the elusive "glass" notification and disabled it.

Wow, I just realized how completely I was misunderstanding this 
preference. Thanks for this (very old) thread!

Note that MailMate also has a slot in the System pref pane 
“Notifications”, which seems to be ignored. That’s where I first 
went to turn the sound off.

John