No sound from Mail ?

Hi
My mail app have stopped to play the "got mail" sound !?!
Everything else works. Dvd, internet, itunes and so on. It´s just mail who does not play any sound anymore ?
when I got to preferences and choose my sound it plays but not when I get a mail ??
Something I haven´t thought about yet ??
Please let me know
G5 2x2GHz Mac OS X (10.4.6) 4Gb RAM

I had the exact same thing and spent a lot of time with tech support about it. This is going to sound odd, but I (at least think ) have solved the problem by turning up the vollume! By the way, this is as of 5 minutes ago, and I just now decided to kill some time browsing support forums. (Is a bad habit...)
Look around under the Sound preferences section under
the blue apple logo, then System Preference then Sound (Its the second row, last column of the little icons there). Just set the sliders for sound output volume higher than they are now and at least try that.
I was looking at an operating system restore with backup and recover before I "gave it one last try".
Good luck
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iMac 20" Mac OS X (10.4.7)

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