[MlMt] How to play a sound for incoming mail EXCEPT when it's spam?

[Pierre Igot]

Hi Benny,

It’s one of the things I’ve tried before.

Since I already have a smart mailbox to apply a specific color to these messages, for this smart mailbox, I’ve added a condition involving the SpamSieve score to the rule that plays the sound. In other words, my rule for that smart mailbox is:

If ALL conditions are true:
	SpamSieve-Score does not exist
	To Address is <the address for the account>
Actions:
	Play Sound XXX

I added the other conditions because my address for the account is also a catch-all address and therefore also gets spam sent to made-up addresses using my domain name (which I own).

But the end result is the same, i.e. the sound still plays even for spam that SpamSieve has filed away.

Am I putting the conditions in the wrong place? Should I put them under “Conditions for messages displayed” instead? (The distinction is not entirely clear to me.)

Or do I need to create a different smart mailbox altogether?

Thanks (and thanks to Henry Seiden too, whose suggestion sounds interesting and worth trying if this fails)!

Pierre

On 23 Apr 2025, at 16:00, Benny Kjær Nielsen wrote:

> On 23 Apr 2025, at 20:50, Pierre Igot wrote:
>
>> That works… except that, if that account receives an email that SpamSieve immediately flags as spam and moves to the spam mailbox, MM… still plays the sound.
>
> I believe this used to work as one would expect, but it's not unlikely that some change implicitly broke it. I haven't checked whether or not I can reproduce it.
>
>> Is that possible? I’ve tried various things, but the things I’ve tried either have no effect or cause the sound to stop playing altogether, and I cannot really figure out why.
>
> Try creating a smart mailbox based on the Inbox which only shows emails for which “Spamsieve-Score exists”. Then setup the counter/sound for this mailbox instead.
>


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