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

[Pierre Igot]

Hi Benny,

Just wanted to confirm that, if I create a smart mailbox with the rule illustrated in the picture below (play sound if spamsieve-score does not exist), MailMate fails to play the sound, even for messages coming in the inbox that do appear to match the rule.

https://www.dropbox.com/scl/fi/aigcwu2df18odmu252lox/MailMate-2025-04-25-at-10.31.24-2x.jpg?rlkey=l5wzf0p1jw27tcdu828qbhu19&st=f297g9qh&dl=0

I can only get the smart mailbox to play the sound if I don’t attach any conditions to the rule, which of course means that it’ll also play the sound for spam filed away by SpamSieve.

For reference purposes, this is what I have under “Mailboxes” for this smart mailboxes:

https://www.dropbox.com/scl/fi/ia5i17l75sjw75dsjlcam/MailMate-2025-04-25-at-10.38.22-2x.jpg?rlkey=d20mcmrg5fmc3jbqofq8qt5nu&st=2avgq4wo&dl=0

It’s the same thing that I have for the other smart mailbox that I use for colouring all these messages in orange, which works just fine.

So right now I’m left with trying Henry Seiden’s suggestion. But I would very much like to understand why the above doesn’t work.

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.
>
> -- 
> Benny


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