Re: Mail sounds?

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From: David Lemson
Date: Sun, 30 Aug 1992 17:37

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jeffo@uiuc.edu (J.B. Nicholson-Owens) writes:

>William E. Grosso writes
>> How is this significantly different from using a .forward file 
>> to play a sound when mail arrives ?

>Probably not different at all from a functional perspective.  Either way,  
>a sound is played when new mail arrives.  However, with Mail.app doing the  
>work, you don't need a ~/.forward file at all.  Beginners would appreciate  
>this (I suspect just an open panel away from making it work).

Another difference is that a built-in option would most likely work
in a network situation much better than the .forward file, which
really is kludgey to make work wherever you happen to be logged in.
(by 'network situation', I'm talking about a mail spool shared in a
heterogenous network)
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