Thunderbird - New Email Sound

[Nibiruet]

Anyone using TB who has successfully enabled "new email" sound (either system new mail or custom wav file) please contact. Using latest TB with Kubuntu 6.0.6 but unable to get sound working.

Also unable to locate so called "System new mail Sound".

HELP PLEASE !!!!
Thanks.

P.S. - The TB forum has been a dead loss

[lowey23]

Re: Thunderbird - New Email Sound

Hi, Nibiruet,

I have a .wav file working successfully (Homer Simpson - the mail, the mail is here - ooohhh) in T/Bird 1.5.0.4 in Dapper 6.06.

This is what I did. I hope my careful explanation doesn't seem like I'm talking down to you. I don't know your level of experience.

In Thunderbird :-

Edit->Preferences->General
Under "When new mail arrives" tick "play a sound".
Click Advanced and then "Custom .wav file" and then browse to where you have your .wav file stored.
OK, Close, then restart T/Bird and you should be away.

Hope this is what you were after,
Cheers
Lowey

[Nibiruet]

Re: Thunderbird - New Email Sound

Thanks, appreciate it.

However, have tried that and even selected different wav files to eliminate problem , if any, with wav file but no luck.

Chose "use system sound" but that did not work either.

Unable to locate an email "System Sound" in systems settings for KDE under notifications. Have everything else like Kopete etc all working great with sound.

[jamuir]

Re: Thunderbird - New Email Sound

I also have a problem with thunderbird not playing sound. I used to be able to fix this by calling thunderbird using "artsd":

$ artsd mozilla-thunderbird

Unfortunately, this no longer works.

The package I have installed is

mozilla-thunderbird   1.5.0.4-0ubuntu6.06.1

Thunderbird seems to be configured to use /usr/bin/esd to play its sounds. Here's what I get when I run thunderbird from the console and select "Preview Sound" from Edit->Preferences->General->Advanced:

/bin/sh: /usr/bin/esd: No such file or directory
/bin/sh: /usr/bin/esd: No such file or directory
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/usr/bin/esd is the Gnome way of doing sound; I imagine this works flawlessly in Gnome I wish the mozilla packages weren't so Gnome centric.

So it seems clear that the problem is that Thunderbird is sending sound data to /usr/bin/esd, which isn't there. Does someone know how to get Thunderbird to talk to artsd? Possibly "artscat" might be utilized...

-James