Underground And Other Stuff

With Outlook as well as many other email clients, you can set up a series of filters to be run based on the emails you receive. One of the thing you can do, though, is associate a particular wave file from your computer with incoming email from a particular contact. In Outlook, open up the Rules and Alerts dialog by either pressing the button in the toolbar or selecting it via the Tools menu. You will then see an option for playing a sound when you recieve a message from someone. Run through the wizard and you will select the file to play and associate it with a particular recepient.

This can be useful for knowing when an important email comes in without having to look. For example, if an email comes in from your boss, have it play a particular sound. From your family, another sound. Its very similar to setting up different ringtones on your cellphone if certain people call you.