Sound

The Bat! can notify you about the arrival of new mail with a sound. (As The Bat! uses WAV files, you need to have a sound card installed in your system to play these sound files).

Setting sounds at the Account level plays a sound whenever a new message arrives in any folder. Setting sounds at the Folder level makes it possible to define an additional sound for user-defined mail folders, so you can tell just by listening which folder has received new mail.

Sometimes, it may be necessary to disable the sound during a certain time period (for example, at home you wouldn't usually want to hear The Bat! reporting new mail in the middle of the night). Allow sound only within time interval is designed specifically to restrict the times during which the New Mail Notification sound reports new incoming e-mail. For example: 9:00-20:00.

2.	Select Account \| Properties or right-click the Account folder and select Properties from the context menu.

3.	In the Account Properties dialog box, select Sound.

4.	At the top right of the dialog box, enable the check box: Play sound when new mail arrives.

5.	Use the Browse button to select a WAV file on your system.

6.	Use the Test button to play the sound and hear what it sounds like.

7.	If you want to restrict the time when The Bat! plays a sound, enter the time in the Allow sound only within time interval.

Note: The default time interval is from 00:00 to 24:00 or from midnight to midnight. This allows The Bat! to play sounds for incoming new mail 24 hours a day. To restrict the sounds to specific intervals, enter the beginning time to play sounds on the left and the ending time to play sounds on the right. Example: to restrict sounds to play only between the hours of 9:00am and 8:00pm, enter 09:00-20:00 (The Bat! uses a 24 hour clock based on your computer's internal clock).

2.	Select Folder \| Properties or right-click the Folder and select Properties from the context menu.

3.	In the Edit Folder Properties dialog box, select the Sound tab.

4.	In the Sound when new mail arrived portion of the dialog box, enable one of the following radio buttons:

·	Use Account Settings: Plays a sound according to the Account Properties settings (see above).

·	Use own sound settings: Uses sound setting for this folder, which supercedes Account settings.

·	Sound disabled: Turns off using sound to notify you of new mail for this folder.

5.	Use the Browse button to select a WAV file on your system (if using sounds for this folder).

6.	Use the Test button to play the sound and hear what it sounds like.

7.	If you want to restrict the time when The Bat! plays a sound for this folder, enter the time in the Override account's allowance interval. The Bat! uses this time interval to play sounds for this folder and not the Account Sound Properties.