No new mail alert sound in Mountain Lion

I have this problem too. I noticed there's another thread with the same problem here. So it's not that rare.

Same here since upgrading to Mountain Lion 10.8.1. No Mail sound alerts on Notifications either, only for Reminders and iMessage.

C'mon, Geniuses--fix this b/c I'm not about to start messing around with some of these other 'permission' suggestions!

My system is 10.8.2 my mac back to sleep no longer makes sounds in the mail.

Not sending or receiving.

If I close and open the mail again ai works

If anyone knows a solution please let me know

Ditto - no sounds in Mail.

the mail has sound

if the MAC stay asleep when returning from sleep no more sound (receive / send)

I have to close and reopen it to get sound

I have the same problem

If you know the solution let me know

I did everything and it did not work 😕

1) REST: SMC

http://support.apple.com/kb/HT3964?viewlocale=pt_BR&locale=pt_BR

2) ZAP PRAM

http://support.apple.com/kb/HT1379

3) check sound notifications in the mail preferences

4) check if the sound effects are marked preference system SOUND

5) repair disc

6)repair permissions

I believe that only in an update 😕

Hi Marcelo

I found 2 solutions that worked for me

1. Create a rule to run an apple script whenever you have new email (this apple script will make an alert sound). I have describled this method in detail on the 1st page of this thread

2. Add a new sound alert file in Mail Preferences/Generals/New Messages Sound/Add or Remove. This file should be in WAV form. After you add the file, it will appear in your new messages sound list like this (in this case I named the WAV file as Glass)

You can go to System/Library/Sounds to find all the default alert sounds. Copy one out to the desktop and then use iTunes to convert it into WAV. Then you can add the WAV file into Mail and choose that as your new messages sound. Finally, just to clarify, I put the new sound file in ~/Library/Sounds before I add it (from Finder click Go then hold Alt/Option to see Library folder) and I found that sometimes you need to restart Mail for this method to work while Apple script method will work everytime.

Another solution may work for you:

_ Go to Applications/Utilities/Audio MIDI Setup/ then change 2ch-24bit Interger to 2ch-32bit Float or in case if it's not 2ch-24bit Interger in default then try that option 1st.

AppleScript Editor want a space in "isgreater".

The correct operator at least in 10.8.2 is "is greater".

So, the full script list will be something like:

tellapplication "Mail" toif (countof (everymessageofinboxwhoseread statusisfalse)) is greater than 0 thendo shell script "afplay '/Applications/Mail.app/Contents/Resources/New Mail.aiff'"

Thanks for the correction !!!

Ausom, thanks Mikaeldo88, your script worked a charm.

Had the same problem with sound for outgoing and incomming mail not working after computer went to sleep.

Found an easy fix'

go to System Preferances-Energy Saver and uncheck the box for "Put hard disks to sleep when possible"

Found that system would not restart the sound after sleep but required a restart for it to work again, by unchecking this box system would not go into "hard sleep". worked like a charm for me.🙂

For now works for use day

The problem continues because there's a time that the MAC sleeps

Hi Marcelo,

Your computer will still go to sleep after you uncheck the box "Put hard disks to sleep when possible" so you don't have to worry about that.

My computer has been fine for days and it still go to sleep.🙂