8.15 Specifying When You Receive Sounds and Alerts

  1. Click Tools > Options. For Macintosh, click Preferences > Options.

  2. Click Alerts.

    Options dialog box showing the Alerts page

  3. In the Notification of Events list, click the event for which you want to specify sounds and alerts.

  4. Select or deselect Display Alert and Play Sound. To change the default sound, browse to a different sound file.

  5. (Optional) Select Don't play any sounds unless my status is Available.

  6. Click OK.

To mute all sounds temporarily, right-click the GroupWise Messenger status icon in the system tray, then select Mute. Follow the same step to turn sounds back on. If you use mute to turn sounds off, they are turned back on when you exit GroupWise Messenger and log back in.