Thunderbird new mail sound

[Gustavo Seabra]

Juliano Ravasi Ferraz wrote:

>Gustavo Seabra wrote:
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>>Hi,
>>
>>Has anyone had problems with TB new mail sound? I just can't get it to
>>work. I'm using KDE, and sound works great for most things. I've tried
>>adjusting the new mail sound in Gnome and then switch back to KDE, but
>>it didn't work. I also tried setting different sounds through TB Tools
>>--> Options --> General --> "when new mail arrives" to different custom
>>sounds, but none worked. So, in summary, I can't get TB to play any
>>sounds at all!
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>I also use KDE, and here the new mail song works only when it wants
>to... Also, on Mozilla (not TB), the new mail song sometimes gets piped
>to a random open descriptor (stdout, stderr, or any other open file
>(I've already lost my address book once because Mozilla written my
>new_mail.wav over it :-/)). The solution was to leave it using the
>default system beep.
>
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Thanks. I'd be happy with that, as long as it worked. However, even 
using the default system beep, I get *nothing* from Thunderbird as far 
as new-mail sound. Just no sound at all.

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Gustavo Seabra - Graduate Student
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Kansas State University
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