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- From: jeffo@uiuc.edu (J.B. Nicholson-Owens)
- Subject: Re: Mail sounds?
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- Reply-To: jeffo@uiuc.edu (J.B. Nicholson-Owens)
- Organization: University of Illinois at Urbana
- Date: Sun, 30 Aug 1992 01:31:39 GMT
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- 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).
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