Can I add a sound to incoming mail in the mail.app?

[Arcade]

Hello,

On my iPhone I have the "You got mail" sound setup for incoming mail. Is there away that I can add a custom sound on my mail app in my Mac?

 

[Stephen.R]

On my iPhone I have the "You got mail" sound setup for incoming mail.

Do you mean an actual person saying that, or just the "new messages" tone?

There is a "New messages sound" preference in Mail > Preferences > General, but you can't add custom ones, that I can see.

 

[Arcade]

I would like to change the new messages tone to the voice wave sound from aol.

 

[Jessica Lares]

Yeah, you put them in ~/Library/Sounds

I know you're new to the Mac and not sure how much you know already, but Apple doesn't give us direct access to the Library folder anymore, so to get to it we go through the Go to Folder under Go in the menu when you're in Finder.

You might have to restart Mail.app before it shows up as an option.

 

[Arcade]

Thank you for the reply.

I'm in the folder right now but it's empty or the files are hidden.

 

[Jessica Lares]

Thank you for the reply.

I'm in the folder right now but it's empty or the files are hidden.

Yeah, drag your file in there. It's empty because it's your user folder with your personal settings. The built-in system sounds are in another folder in the Macintosh HD volume.

 

[Arcade]

Oh I understand that's really simple.

Thank You.