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

[Henry Seiden]

Pierre,

As a caveat to your rule, even though this may not affect you at the moment, those who filter mail from a drone setup (as described in SpamSieve manual) involving two or more Mac computer installations, the non-drone device has no knowledge of SpamSieve actions (all messages move to junk elsewhere), and your rule will not work on the non-drone.

That is the reason I made the wait-timer rule I made and apply it on both machines - the non-drone and drone, to institute a wait of 2 minutes for the sound instead of yours. It accomplishes the goal similarly, **no sound on spam at the inbox**, by means of a delay to the sound for every message to allow the drone to move any/all spam message(s) out of the Inbox via SpamSieve.

Respectfully,

Henry Seiden
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Techworks Pro Co.
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On 7 May 2025, at 13:50, Pierre Igot wrote:

> In order to avoid the sound playing when that account received junk, I had to use a smart mailbox with a “Spamsieve-Score exists” condition, which ONLY plays the sound for messages that stay in the inbox after SpamSieve has done its thing, i.e. it only plays the sound for messages that are not junk (according to SpamSieve), which is what I wanted. So all is well and my problems were primarily due to my misunderstanding of the logic.
>
> Thanks as always to Benny for being so helpful on the mailing list and in private.
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