New Mail Sound: Get Scully in your Inbox
Monday, October 16th, 2006
Tired of Mail’s discreet new mail sound and thirsting for something more exotic? Got work colleagues that you want to drive crazy?
A collection of 38 various “You’ve got mail” audio files 
could be just the thing.
It includes soundbites from the delightfully husky Scully (”Have you checked your email this morning, Mulder?”), Bugs Bunny, Homer Simpson, a nerd, Ausin Powers, the Adams Family and more.
Changing the sound Mail makes when new mail arrives is easy.
Save the audio file you want from the collection or find one of your own and put it somewhere memorable.
Open up the General pane of Mail.app’s Preferences and select the drop-down menu for “New Mail Sound”:
The “Add / Remove…” option allows you to navigate to the audio file want. Click “Add”, find your file and Mail will copy it into your ~/Library/Sounds folder and add it as an option to the drop-down menu.
Tags: Apple Mail, audio notification, mail.app, new mail alert, scully, sound files, wav
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