New mail alert has stopped working

I use Mail with my .mac account and a few days ago, Mail stopped alerting me when I had new mail. I've tried changing the new mail sound and I removed com.apple.mail.plist from my Preferences folder but that didn't fix the problem.
I really like hearing some sort of sound when new mail arrives in my inbox. Anobody have any ideas about what else I should try?
Thanks.

This sometimes happens to me too, as well as my alerts with iChat. I have to restart the computer and that fixes it for me. Hope that is the case with you as well.
Christine

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