Hack Attack: Set Custom "Ringtones" for Your Email Inbox

When To Use Email "Ringtones"

• By Groups: If you use your desktop email client to deal with both personal and work email, you may want to set up different alerts for each (or only alerts for the more important group). Likewise, if you're just using the client for personal email, you might want to set different notification sounds for friends and family.
• By Individual: If you want to get really specific, you can set custom alert tones by individual. This won't be the most practical for all clients (it would be especially painful to set up with Thunderbird), but the concept of matching a snippet of your contact's custom phone ringtone with your email notification is enticing.
• By Subject: If you've got a buzzword or two that you always want to keep on top of, you might want to consider a custom alert for any email containing that special topic.
• By Priority: I don't know a lot of people who actually set priority when they send emails, but if you're dealing with folks who do, it might be worthwhile to set a special alert for your high priority messages. Then again, you can still set up your own list of priority contacts and non-priority contacts to achieve the same basic goal.

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