Mail sounds suddenly not working

For some strange reason, my mail sounds are not operating. I have a certain sound selected to announce incoming mail, but as of today, it doesn't ring. Nor do I get my "No Mail" sound. When I go to System preferences>Sound, none of the sounds play when I click them. Other sounds (iTunes, voices, etc.) work OK.
Does anyone have an idea as to how to fix this? Maybe deleting mail .plists?
Thanks.

For some strange reason, my mail sounds are not
operating. I have a certain sound selected to
announce incoming mail, but as of today, it doesn't
ring. Nor do I get my "No Mail" sound. When I go to
System preferences>Sound, none of the sounds play
when I click them. Other sounds (iTunes, voices,
etc.) work OK.
Does anyone have an idea as to how to fix this? Maybe
deleting mail .plists?
Thanks.
If the sounds don't play in the Sound Preference pane then deleting mail.plist won't matter.
Check in /System/Library/Sounds. Do the .aiff files open and play in QT when you double-click them there? If not you'll need to run repair disk from disk utility and if they still don't work after that you'll want to see if you can replace them.
If they do work, then try pulling the following to the desktop and logging out and back in:
~/Library/Preferences/com.apple.systempreferences.plist
~/Library/Preferences/By Host/com.apple.systempreferences.XXX.plist (where XXX is a random string)

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