Setting up VIP notifications in OSX mail.app

Hi guys

In iOS 7 you can set up the mail app so that it only plays the notification sound when you receive mail from a VIP. For the life of me I can't make that happen on the OSX mail app.

In Mail settings I have:

• New messages sound: New messages sound
• New message notifications: VIPs

In Notification Center I have:

• Main alert style: none
• Unticked "play sound for notifications"

What is happening with this current setup is that I'm getting the notification sound for all emails, not just from VIPs.

When I change the 'New messages sound' in Mail app to 'None' then I don't receive any notification sounds for emails - VIPs or not VIPs.

I've also tried creating a rule that if sender is VIP send notification but that doesn't work either.

Is it even possible to do what I want? Any help greatly appreciated!

 

Thanks for the reply. I don't think I should even have to use a rule for this particular feature, but the one I trialled was if any sender is VIP send notification. I don't really want to add individual addresses to a rule because my VIP list is dynamic depending on what projects I have running at any particular time.

I think you're onto something suggesting that it might be a bug. Mavericks is pretty buggy at the moment...I'll hold out for the next update and see if that fixes it for me.

Thanks!

 

10.9.2 fixed the problem