Robert Daeley at O’Reilly’s macdevcenter has written an AppleScript that will give you notification of new mail in Mail.app by playing your choice of song in iTunes.

He provides instructions on how to modify the script to specify the song, the playlist, and the start and end point in the track.

The script is then linked to a rule in Apple Mail.

Is this a good idea? Not in my house, but it might be in yours.

UPDATE: And as TUAW sensibly points out, you can do something very like this through Apple Mail’s Preferences without needing to enter the fraught world of applescript at all.

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Tags: Apple Mail, applescript, iTunes, mail.app, notification

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