INCOMING MAIL SOUNDS DELAYED 2-3 MINUTES

I am not receiving an INSTANTANEOUS incoming mail sound alert as I have the entire time I've owned the computer. Instead, it sound alerts me 2-3 minutes after the mail is laying in the box. I NEED the instantaneous alert for my competitive business. I was 10.4.11, then performed a clean installation of Snow Leopard.
BTW, I first upgraded to Snow Leopard and had a variety of glitches. Then, I started from scratch installing a clean install. Snow Leopard is fantastic.
HOWEVER - I need to fix this one glitch. Any ideas?

Same here... but with a twist.
Very weird. I have Mail.app set to play "new mail sound" as well as other mail-even sounds.
I have some rules that route some mail to another folder (mail box). When mail comes for those, I get the sound. But for mail that stays in the inbox, no sound. The in-box is an IMAP box while the others are "local." I used to get the sound on Tiger on my old Mini.
When mail comes into in-box it is "bold" (no-read) which is correct.
I have "dock count" set for in-box only. Works fine.
I get the "woosh" when sending mail.
I've tried setting mail preferences for "play sounds" to other sounds. Same thing.
I've tried it with the mail.app showing and with it hidden. Same thing.
I've tried closing and opening mail. I've tried re-booting. Still no sound for "in-box" mail that is not "routed" to another mail box.
This is a brand new iMac with SL. Anyone have any ideas of what is going on. Maybe there is a setting I missed somewhere?
Thanks,
Al

Similar Messages

  • Setting incoming mail sounds

    Good morning.
    I have 3 email accounts set up via my mac mail. I wanted to assign a different sound to each to alert me when mail arrives.
    I quickly realized the general settings in preferences for incoming mail sound is a global setting, not adjustable per account. So I created three rules: when to matches *this email address* play *this sound*.
    That seems to work EXCEPT that the general setting *New Mail Sound* also occurs. If I set New Mail Sound to None in the General settings, all new mail sound is shut off--including the specific sounds I set in Rules.
    Anyone know how to turn off the global new mail sound yet still hear the specific new mail sounds per different email accts?
    Thanks for your help.

    Open Mail preferences, click on the Accounts icon in the toolbar, click on the Advanced tab, uncheck the box labeled IDLE and see if that fixes things.

  • No incoming mail sound

    10.5.6 always had an incoming mail sound, and since updating to 10.5.7 no sound. The preferences still show the sound. What gives?

    Bruce,
    Not sure about Mail Badger, but even in 10.5.6, the use of IDLE, at least with MobileMe, was known to inhibit the New Mail Alert -- this allows push mail, but impacts the sound.
    Ernie

  • Cannot turn off incoming mail sounds

    I am running 10.8.1 on a new retina macbook.
    I have tried every preference panel I can find and nothing seems to be able to turn off the incoming mail sound.
    I am getting what I think is the "Basso" sound whenever a new mail message comes in.
    I went to Mail Preferences and picked New Messages Sound>None.
    Then I unchecked Play sounds for other mail actions
    Still get the basso sound when new mail comes in.
    I even rebooted to see if that would fix it.  No luck.
    Then I went and tried to change the sound to something else.  That didn't work either.  Stuck on basso!
    Even checked Notifications Center and the Sound Preferences Panel.  No luck there either.
    I don't want to turn off sound entirely, just stop incoming mail sounds.
    Any help or suggestions would be appreciated!
    thanks

    Hi Mikibee...  Try this:  Mail / Preferences setting, from this window you will see (new message sound), set it to " none". Let me know if it worked for you.
                                                                                              Thanks.

  • Is the another way to mute incoming mail sound?

    My new iPad Air has an annoying issue that I can't seem to solve.
    I'm not a new user, this is my 3rd iPad.
    What happens is that I have put the incoming mail sound to none in the settings. But still the incoming mail sound can be heard.
    If I mute the Ring and Alerts sound, it stops. But that is annoying because now I can't hear my alarm or my keyboard clicks or applications within apps, like for instance a video on Facebook or Google+ doesn't have sound either and neither do some games? But if I un-mute it there is the annoying mail sound again.
    I want to use my alarm but it's hard to sleep with a incoming mail sound going the whole night.
    My slide button on the side is set to lock rotation and the bell is muted in the control panel.
    I tried switching those but that doesn't make a difference.
    I have 2 mail accounts, a me.com and a gmail account.
    I tried removing the gmail account, thought that might be the problem but it isn't.
    I rebooted but the issue us still there.
    Any of you have an idea what is causing my mail sound?
    Thanks,
    Christine

    Settings>Notification Center>Mail>your mail account>Alert Sound>None

  • HT1430 INCOMING MAIL SOUND

    I HAVE MADE SEVERAL ATTEMPTS TO CHANGE MY INCOMING MAIL SOUND TO ANOTHER SOUND BUT ORIGINAL SELECTION KEEPS RECURRING....ANY SUGGESTIONS?

    Just to check, is this where you changed the sound?
    Settings > Sounds > New Mail
    You selected a new sound or different sound yet your New Mail sound didn't change when you received new mail.
    First thing to try is to reset your device. Press and hold the Home and Sleep buttons simultaneously until the Apple logo appears. Let go of the buttons and let the device restart. Then attempt to change the sound again.

  • Incoming Mail Sound

    G'day All,
    Can anyone offer any advice on how to implement one of the sounds on offer on my iMac to alert me to incoming mail?
    Apple Support tell me it SHOULD work but can't tell me why it doesn't.
    Please keep any responses non-technical folks, you're talking to a Queenslander...
    Thanks in advance, Bill

    Hi Carolyn,
    Sorry for the delay but we've been catching up with Australia's disasters, the top half is under water and the bottom half has gone up in flames, hundreds of homes lost in Victoria and the tragic loss of 25 lives and counting.
    OK... I didn't get the full content of your last reply in my email, only the bit down to the thread item so have jumped the gun a bit to a degree and yes, I had read about Play Sound which I've downloaded (the 1.6.7 version).
    This has proved to be a total disaster and although I've got my doorbell.aif file in Applications and can get it into Playsound I can't bring up the "Open with: Play Sound (default)" as per the Read Me file
    'cos the window that opens up from the File > Get Info is purely version information!
    On top of that, when I close the Play Sound window on my desktop, the doorbell vanishes too...
    The good news is that I've achieved some success by following Mr LF's advice and I've now got the doorbell going berserk when I get incoming mail! Of course I've also got iTunes being launched as well but after after hours of blood, sweat and tears, what the ****?! Now if I can just get Play Sound sorted...
    As a result of the above, I haven't followed your "And just for kicks" suggestion dependent on whether you feel it's still worth doing. I did try the "New Mail Sound" thing (prior to Apple scripting) without success.
    We're getting there Carolyn, we're getting there!
    Marginally More Cluey Bill

  • Incoming mail sound does not sound- is activated in preferences

    Started after taking headphone jack out of back of Mac. iTunes plays, can hear sounds from Second Life, MSN Messenger, but incoming/outgoing sounds in Mail and iChat are gone. Activated/enabled in preferences in each app but don't play for incoming mail/im's. What to do, what to do?
    Thanks in advance.

    The same thing is going on with my mail sounds and my Trash sounds.
    Instead of restarting - try to Relaunch the finder first.
    Apple/Option/esc
    iMac CD / iMac G3 / in the closet Performa 6115CD / ll SE   Mac OS X (10.4.9)  

  • Mail sound delayed 10.9

    upgraded to 10.9, no issues at all, but now a weird thing is happening.  mail notifications come in (upper right corner of screen), i hear the mail sound on my phone at roughly the same time i get the notification, and then about 30 to 45 seconds later, i'm getting the mail notification sound on my mac.
    the email is in the inbox before the mail sound on my mac.
    all software is up to date. 
    using icloud
    mac mini 2011
    Processor  2.6 GHz Intel Core i7
    Memory  16 GB 1333 MHz DDR3
    Graphics  Intel HD Graphics 4000 1024 MB
    Software  OS X 10.9 (13A603)
    any thoughts?

    I tried once to use an AppleScript as a rule as a solution to this problem, forcing Mail to make a sound immediately after it finds new messages. Of course, this lead to (say) 5 alerts for 5 messages, which was quite annoying.
    But it's worth noting that although I have disabled GMail and stuck only with one Yahoo and one iCloud acount (both IMAP), there are still some delays, around 5-7 seconds after the visual notification.
    All in all, aside from the "feature" (I'm sure it's not meant to be a bug) of playing a sound after ALL of Mail Activity is done, the real problem is that the all the Mail activity seems slow. Of course Mail had this feature in Mountain Lion and before (since playing only one alert for all the new messages is the good way to go), but the sound delays appeared in Mavericks because of Mail (Activity) slowness.
    Sorry, not a solution, just my 2 cents.
    And yes, I also filed a bug report to Apple, but since they consider this a "feature", rather than a bug, they may think that everything goes as they meant to

  • Why doesn't my incoming mail sound work

    I am using Mail 3.3 and in the preferences I have a "new mail" sound .wav file in the general tab
    and the box is checked for the "play sounds for other mail actions". The "other mail actions" sounds are working, and when I recheck the .wav sound it plays fine in the sample mode. However, the sound doesn't play in regular receive mail mode. Anybody have a suggestion?

    http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?threadID=1538808&start=195&tstart=0
    This problem has been had since Tiger came out, there are so many posts about this, the one above is 5 pages long.
    I posted this post below on the 15th September 2007 -
    +At Least I Am Not The Only One+
    +It was good to hear the same problem I've had for ever.+
    +I was listening to Leo LaPorte's radio podcast and a lady rang in said her few months old iMac would only play the email arrive sound occasionally. She rang Apple but they couldn't fix the problem, so she rang Leo.+
    +At least I'm not the only one and Leo did not know how to fix it either, except to say to check System Preferences/Sound, and I know this makes no difference.+
    +I just hope Apple were listening and fix Mail some day.+
    I have asked here several times and on other forums and also reported to Apple, I have tried so many different ways to fix the problem including full format erase and new install, but all to no avail.
    Thunderbird works perfectly and will play any sound format, why not Apple Mail.
    I first thought Leopard would fix this, then the 10.5.5, but no.
    So disappointing.
    Rodney

  • Incoming Mail Very Delayed

    I use Godaddy.com as my website and e-mail host and just starting this morning, my incoming e-mails are coming in extremely delayed. Mail checks for new messages every minute but I'm getting e-mails an hour after they were sent and they're showing up lower down in my e-mail list because they're old. Is this a problem on the Mail program side of on Godaddy's server side? How do I figure out which?
    Thanks for your help!

    Hopefully this issue has already cleared up. Call our support staff if you still need some help with this. Our team can take a look at this and give you immediate support. Details can be found here: http://www.godaddy.com/community/community.aspx?tab=support

  • No incoming mail sound with IMAP

    I have changed all my mailboxes from POP to IMAP.
    I now no longer get a sound notification on new mail. (or if I do only once in a while)
    Sounds is enabled, can hear ping when going to preferences to select sound, in system preferences audio notification is on.
    I have done repair permissions.
    Sounds is on in preferences and active.
    Any ideas please
    thanks

    Robin,
    Sometimes this works.
    Go to Mail > Preferences > Accounts tab > click account on the left > Advanced tab > uncheck "Use IDLE command if the server supports it".
    Regards,
    Captfred

  • Incoming mail sound not working

    I have the "new messages sound" turned on in Preferences of Mail on my iMac, but it doesn't seem to work consistently or sometimes at all. I have Yosemite 10.10.2
    Any tips??
    Thx
    Don

    System Preferences > Sound > Sound Effects
    Alert volume:
    Make sure that the slider is set at middle.
    Uncheck and recheck the box beside "Play user interface sound effects".

  • How do I change the incoming mail sound?

    I have a funny south park .mp3 sound bite I want to use as a replacement to the bland/dull sound my Mac uses when notifying me of new e-mail. Is there an easy way to do this?

    Did you put the sound in /Library/Sounds (you would have had to create that folder, since it doesn't exist by default), or ~/Library/Sounds (you might have had to create that folder, too)?
    .wav, .aif, .aiff, and .snd are all files I've used and they all work perfectly, so I'm not sure what your problem may be. Did you try using Disk Utility to Repair Disk Permissions, or even removing your com.apple.mail.plist file from ~/Library/Preferences, and then restarting Mail and setting up your accounts again? If not, do those things in order, but Don't Empty the Trash.

  • 10.5.3: Incoming mail sound STILL NOT fixed.

    So, in order to make this a question, anyone knows a fix? Please...not the one with writing an Apple script, something other if possible.
    Thx
    <Edited by Moderator>

    K9Lover: We must start to assume it's a feature not a bug then?
    Well Monty thanks for your input I have no other third party app besides "Little Snitch" running, I have a PB G4 and a brand New iMac - same issue on both machines.
    You might have never heard about it, but if you would read through this forum, there's a couple of threads about this. Here we go:
    http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?messageID=6725006&#6725006
    http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?messageID=7034020&#7034020
    http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?messageID=6773757&#6773757
    http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?messageID=7105039&#7105039
    http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?messageID=6905315&#6905315
    http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?messageID=6877370&#6877370
    http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?messageID=6804897&#6804897
    http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?messageID=6988373&#6988373
    http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?messageID=6796708&#6796708
    http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?messageID=6935620&#6935620
    Well, these are just the ones that I found doing a quick look through the posts.
    Apple is also aware of the problem for some time. I recall longer threads about this. People started the rather "Windoish" fix of writing an Apple script for it.
    So anyway, let's leave ignorance aside, pretend that there are more users having the problem and get to work:
    I got the idea that this might only apply for people using pop accounts, can anyone confirm?
    I thought about switching to Imap just for the sake of getting the sound back, but then again...no!
    As I said besides LS I have no other third party apps installed.
    I might have to do a "Clean install" (Uh, the magic word, I hope the "there's no clean install" Possee won't notice!
    Cheers all.

Maybe you are looking for