Dock icon no longer indicates messages received

I get a sound alert that a message has been received, but it is no longer indicate on the icon in the dock. What's up?

Hi, and a warm welcome to the forums!
Try trashing this file & reboot...
/Users/YourUserName/Library/Preferences/com.apple.dock.plist

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drdocument wrote:
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