No Sound When New E-Mail Arrives in Mail

I would like to hear a sound when a new e-mail arrives in my Mail's Inbox but I could not make it work. In Preferences, under General -> New messages sound, I selected New messages sound. When I selected it, I heard the sample beep. However, no sound comes out of the speakers when new mail arrives. Am I missing something or doing something wrong here? Thank you.

There's some sort of problem but I do not know if this is a bug in OS X or a bug in Mail or a peculiarity in the way the IDLE feature works, but for some people if it's enable some or all of Mail's sounds do not work. I puzzled over this for a long time until someone told me about the problem with IDLE. I've passed it on to others who are just as bemused about why turning off IDLE fixes the problem. The problem has been reported to Apple, and one day it may get fixed. So basically I can't give you the reason.

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