Bouncing Mail icon

Hi,
I feel silly- but I know someone out there knows this in a New Yors second!
I have a MacBook Pro - everything the latest. With "MAIL" - it used to be when I receive an email - the little icon in the dock bounced, along with the sound effect.
I zereoed my HD - reinstalled everything fresh - and now . . . NO bouncing icon.
I was kinda getting to like him, bouncing around excitedly - I feel like I've lost an old friend!
Anybody know how to get it to bounce when new emails arrive? Everything else, is fine. Is there a preference somewhere?
Thanks,
Larry

Hi Ferd,
Thank you for your response. It seems you are EXACTLY CORRECT! I hae a friend who works for Apple - if you're curious, he said this . . .
"Add a rule in your Mail preferences that can either be global for all new email or for specific emails. You can have it ignore the unimportant ones. The rule can be: if new mail received, then bounce mail icon in dock. As for sound that should just be the General preference for New Mail. You choose which system sound to use. Sometimes system sounds get funky, especially when using other sound sources sound editing/hacking software. This causes all system sounds to stop. You may notice trash not emptying or iChat not being audible for incoming/outgoing messages. To fix this, you need to open Activity Monitor app and force quit the coreaudio process. It'll auto relaunch and your sounds should be back.
Hope this helps,
M"
And this basically completely agrees with you! Thanks again - problem solved!
Larry

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