Sound Alert for Incoming Mail Not Working

I have searched for a solution to above but not found any. All settings are correct in Mail Preferences and Sound Preferences but the lack of a sound alert when mail arrives still persists.
This problem exists on all three Macs - 15' MBP, 24 iMac and 27" iMac - how weird is that?
Any help would be appreciated.
Joe

Joe, go to Mail --> Preferences --> Accounts. Now do this in each account affected - click Advanced and uncheck "Use IDLE command if the server supports it".
Now send yourself some test messages. You should now hear the new mail chime. Let us know if this resolves your issue. Cheers!

Similar Messages

Curve 9360 custom sound alerts for messages will not work. Tried EVERYTHING.

I have a brand spanking new BlackBerry Curve 9360 that just arrived yesterday. It is great apart from this very frustrating small prob. I can not customise my message alerts for individual people in my address book. When I click on "try it" only the LED button flashes and there is no sound or vibration. I am trying to get the sound and vibrate to play as "active profile" but it just won't. I can override it and have custom volume and vibrate that plays no matter what the profile but as I sometimes like to set my main profile to vibrate or silent, it won't do.
So far, to fix it, I have tried:
Wiping profile and sounds from the blackberry software
Full factory reset
Creating my own profile and using that instead of "normal" or any of the other preset ones
Loads of battery pulls before and/or after any changes
I have also had a few different people text me to make sure the problem isn't just the "try it" feature. It isn't. The sound that plays is always the default message sound for whatever the default profile is.
If anyone can help it would be greatly appreciated
Deb

I have also experienced exactly the same problem.
The profile is set on normal, with the ringer volume on 10, the ring tone has been selected, and I have also selected the option of the vibrator along with the ring tone.
Now here is the problem, initially it rings and works perfectly, however it seems to automatically turn off the volume so the LED light keeps flashing, however there is not ring tone or vibration.
If you select the "normal" profile or any other profile and change the ring tone or the volume, and click on the try it icon at the bottom, it still only flashes the LED, with no sound.
Have tried everything that you have mentioned in your email, however still unable to rectify the issue. the only way to rectify is it to hard stop the BB, by pulling out the battery and restarting the Blackberry.
Can anyone help or suggest what needs to be done ?

Not getting any sound alerts for new mail, key lock etc

I'm not geeting any sound alerts for new email, sent mail, clender alerts etc for my iphone 4. Though all my alerts are on. Also I can't hear the incoming call but the speaker works. I've already upgraded to latest 4.3.3 Any help appriciated.

Did all that...talked to Apple 5 hours and I did everything they said..they don't kno what the problem is

No sound alert for incoming emails

I lost sound alerts for the incoming email messages into my yahoo mail inbox since I upgraded to Mountain lion. I even made rule to play sound it but doesn't work!!! I have all the setting on. Apple please fix since this problem arose with Mountain Lion upgradation.
On the other hand any communication done through the apple mail app doesn't save send items automatically. Apple email is poorly desigend and needs to be redesign or eliminated completely.

Thanks. I just talked to apple rep and we figured out that in system preference>sound effect> output volume, I had mute option checked which happened during upgradation to Mountain lion. iI unchecked mute and now sound alert works. However the sent items are not being synchronized with web based yahoo email sent items.

Check for new mail not working on one account

For a number of months now I have been having trouble getting new mail. I have my Apple Mail 2.1 preferences set to check for new mail every minute and play a New Mail Sound when something arrives. This seems to be working for my earthlink POP account but not my dot.mac e-mail account. The only way to get new dot.mac e-mail on my G5 tower is to alternately click on the left most icons for the different incomming tray icons in my in box, then the InBox icon itself. I dont have to do that for my second e-mail account--an earthlink POP account, or on either account on my laptop. Also, When I do click on the specific in box for my dot mac account, it takes forever to load that new mail, and the activity monitor shows that it is caching every attachment that is already in my in box even though it is already old mail.
Also, Mail seems to be following Smart Mailboxes arbitrarily. For instance, I have a smart mailbox set up to display any incoming mail from someone in my Family Group from address book, however it seems to ignore about half of these, but display the other half accurately.
Anyone know whats going on or how to fix it so I dont have to mannually keep checking for new mail? Again, I have my preferences set to check for new mail every minute and to play a new mail sound, and new mail does work fine from my Earthlink POP account.
Thanks for your help.
LANNY
Dual 2GHz G5 Power PC; Titanium PowerBook Mac OS X (10.4.8)

If this happens to your .Mac account only, try rebuilding the mailbox, i.e. select it and do Mailbox > Rebuild.

On a Mac, how do I add a sound alert for incoming email?

I'm on a Mac. I wish to have specific e-mails make a specific sound when they arrive. Scott Fox has instructions for PC users at http://www.dailymotion.com/video/xe41nu_how-to-make-your-pc-kaching-cash-re_school
How do I do it on my computer with Firefox?

Maybe look at Clippings.
*Clippings: https://addons.mozilla.org/firefox/addon/clippings/
*http://aecreations.sourceforge.net/clippings/

Incoming mail not working after KitKat update

I'm getting no incoming email on my phone at all... The inbox shows my last updated date/time is 06/18/2014 at 2:43pm... I can send mail with no issues.. I have reset my email settings with both SSL and no SSL with no success... Anything I can do to get this to work?

dan1234
I additionally had to do a hard reset in order to fix both the email and the battery issues... it sucks to have to reload all my apps, but at least my data was backed up...

I have a new iPhone 5C, have the sounds alerts set up. But I'm not getting sound alerts for new voicemail, only the red circle on the screen. How can I make the sound alert work?

I have a new iPhone 5C, have the sounds alerts set up. But I'm not getting sound alerts for new voicemail, only the red circle on the screen. How can I make the sound alert work?

I have had this same problem for weeks now with my 4S. I just got a new 5S after being extremely frustrated and the same thing - no sounds. After searching posts all over, I couldn't find a solution. I just told my friend of the issue and he asked "Do you have the Do Not Distrub on?" I didn't even know such a function existed. Upon looking that was exactly the issue.
To resolve, go to Settings> Do Not Disturb> Manual. If it is green, turn it off. You will now get phone calls and text alerts.
This functionality is also on your quick access utility menu (slide up menu). I assume this is how it was enabled on my phone.
I will post on other sites since I searched for weeks for this solution and didn't see it anywhere. Good luck!

Running snow leopard on MBP and am not getting an sound alerts for Mail or Calendar; Have checked all setting in sound in the system preferences

Running snow leopard on MBP and am not getting an sound alerts for Mail or Calendar; Have checked all setting in sound in the system preferences

Hi..
For Mail, from your Mail menu bar (top of your screen) click Mail > Preferences then select the General tab.
Click the pop up menu to the right of New messages sound to make a selection.

My incoming mail user .wav file doesn't play for incoming mails. It does work on local test.

I have windows 7 Professional PC and use Mozilla Thunderbird 24.4.0 as my email account. I have a local .wav music file for incoming mail which tests OK, but when a new mail arrives it doesn't play. I have all the boxes ticked in the settings. Can anyone help please?

An update on local .wav sound file for incoming TB mail messages.
Driver Booster found outdated drivers and all have been updated.
Sound device has been removed from the device manager and automatically re-installed.
From advice given I have turned mail.imap.use_status_for_biff to "false".
Still no sound from my local .wav file. Is my problem unique? Is 2.74 MB too large as a sound file?

HT1338 I can no longer use Macmail for my btinternet account. I was advised to delete the imap account and begin again with a pop account for incoming mail. My Macbook will not let me do that and neither BT nor Yahoo have been able to help.

I can no longer use Macmail for my btinternet account. I was advised to delete the imap account and begin again with a pop account for incoming mail. My Macbook will not let me do that and neither BT nor Yahoo have been able to help.

Btinternet being your internet service provider? If I'm correct, have you followed their directions:
http://btbusiness.custhelp.com/app/answers/detail/a_id/7073/c/2048,2053,3883,206 5
Just found a seemingly newer article (and there are several more on the right of those pages):
http://btbusiness.custhelp.com/app/answers/detail/a_id/7071/related/1/session/L2 F2LzEvdGltZS8xMzU0NzI1NTMyL3NpZC9qaThFVi1jbA%3D%3D

How to turn off alerts for incoming emails

How do you turn off alerts for incoming emails on the iphone?

Settings>Sounds>Ringer and Alerts>New Mail>Off.

Incoming mail not displaying?

Incoming mail not displaying?, appears to download but does not display. Began today. Nothing has changed with computer hardware or software. Mail working fine on iPhone. Any suggestions?

Hi Linc,
Usually after about a couple of minutes use.
Not one particular message - it will freeze for a moment then completely crash
It seems to have solved it self now though.
I can view my text.
Used CCleaner to clear all cache, under the mail app and all miscellaneous cache too.
Restarted laptop and works a treat now.
Curious as to whether it was due to the upgrade to Maverick though

No sound alerts for messages or phone calls since upgrade

I too had no sound alerts for calls or messages since upgrading but then I discovered that the 'Do Not Disturb' option had been somehow switched on after I upgraded. If you have a moon icon at top corner of your screen that's what's happened. You need to go into Settings>DoNotDisturb and switch it off. It worked for me so hope it helps someone else.

Look in the Notifications settings to see if the update turned them off there. If they are turned on and you are still not getting alers on the lock screen, reset your phone. Hold down Home and Power buttons at the same time, wait for Apple logo to appear and wait for the phone to reboot itself.
See if you get alerts with the phone locked. If you still don't get alerts, do a Reset Network Settings reset, Settings => General => Reset => Reset Network Settings. You will have to re-enter your wifi passwords.
If this doesn't help do a Reset All Settings reset. You won't lose any data or content , but the settings on the phone will all be reset to factory defaults and you will need to go in and turn the things you turned on and off on and off again.

Password installastion for incoming mail

password fails for incoming mail works for out going. i use verizon + wndows 8.1

do you also have an old modem?
http://www.verizon.com/support/residential/internet/fiosinternet/email/setup+and+use/questionsone/124289.htm
to quote
Note: If you are an HSI (DSL) customer with a Westell or Actiontec modem (except Actiontec GT784WG) and using its firewall, you may need to turn your firewall settings to ‘Low’ for new email settings to work.

Sound Alert for Incoming Mail Not Working

Similar Messages

Maybe you are looking for