Text feedback (instead of sound) from Mail

I prefer to work with the sound off. Is it possible to make Mail to give me text feedback instead of those sounds. Like "No new messages on server". Or "Could not connect to server"? Like most of mail clients are used to do...

I have been using that facility as my "Sent Mail" no longer gives a whoosh, _which I miss_, and the Mail Activity feature at the bottom of the sidebar does not give any information on sending either.
To add to my suspicion that my Mail application may be losing its integrity, I have had the experience of late of getting "Error. Message could not be appended to the Outbox." this is intermittent and clears with restarting the Mac/Mail or both.
Repairing disk permissions with Disk utility and running Disk Warrior and Tech Tool pro has had no effect , neither did a particularly cheeky trashing of my apple.mail.plist. Further than that I have no wish to go without detailed instructions!!
The same application works without these problems on my alternative firewire Start up disk and also whenever I create a "Guest" account. I've obviously managed to damage this application all on my own.
Things got a bit fraught after the last 10.5.5 and Security Update (Accounts greyed out etc.,) following which I moved my AIM Yahoo and Gmail out of Mail and I access them, better, from their own sites on-line.
I wonder if they took something with them which should have been left behind.
I just have mac Mail and my ISP mail in the Mail application at present.
Any suggestion would be appreciated.

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