Unbelievable - New Mail sound still not working in Snow Leopard

Ouch.

I started getting the sound with 10.5.8. Did you have any luck with that version?

It's not a bug for everyone; I have long had sounds with Mail, and have been using IMAP for years. I had sounds for 10.5.x, and I have sounds in 10.6.

Same here, need to wait some more years before Apple fixes it.

Go to your Mail Preferences Click on Accounts, then click the check box that says "Use IDLE command if the server supports it". Quit Mail and reload it and you should have sound. At least thats what worked for me.

I have the same problem on my iMac with Snow Leopard...

Same here, no new mail sounds.

Same problem. Really REALLY annoying. Going backwards with new update. Have people with this problem found that it is consistent or intermittent? (I have quietly gotten two new emails while typing this post.)

I have never found anything to tell me whether this is intentional or a bug. I do know that in normal course the new email alert does not happen until a cycle of checking for new mail is completed, and furthermore that with the IDLE command in use, the messages in the IMAP account come not as a result of checking for new mail, but rather are Pushed. So there may simply be an inevitable disconnect.

Ernie

My IMAP mail NEVER plays new message sound (since installing 10.6). Not even after a cycle checking for new mail is complete. I never had this problem before and am so frustrated. Why is this only a problem for some people?

same here, i couldn't get a new mail sound. so i used growl mail in 10.5.8. and now? the growlmail plugin isn't compatible anymore! so now i don't have any mail sound at all...

Were you using Tiger or Leopard, formerly? The Mail in Tiger did not support the Use IDLE Command if support by the server, whereas both Mail 3.x and Mail 4.0 do. Check in Mail Preferences/Accounts/Advanced to see whether User IDLE is selected. If it is, and you have not needed it previously, Deselect it, and the alert sound should return.

Ernie