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- From: lemson@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu (David Lemson)
- Subject: Re: Mail sounds?
- Message-ID: <Btt4yy.MuH@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu>
- Organization: University of Illinois at Urbana
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- Date: Sun, 30 Aug 1992 17:37:32 GMT
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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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