mail sound delayed 10.9

My two cents. Bought my first Mac about a month ago. I loved my iPad and iPhone so much I could barely stand to be on a Microsoft OS anymore. The question we all should be asking, (and hopefully Apple support will be listening), is why doesn't Mac OS X work as perfectly as iOS on the iPad and iPhone?

Sounds like we are all using the same email accounts on all our Apple devices. If not for the perfection found in iOS we would be none the wiser as to the deficits in OS X. And this sound delay issue is so minor when compared to my issues getting my Cox.net account to receive new emails without manual intervention. Whereas the same eamil account setup on my iPhone and iPad work flawlessly.

Sorry, not trying to hijack the topic.

I totally agree with you, @dryheat, this issue is minor but:

- as someone mentioned, since OS X is quite great, we're left with the minor things to complain about, thank God (Apple, actually) for no major bugs 🙂

- the sound delay, once understood with all its causes, implies an overall slowness of Mail Activity. So, in fact, the sound delay is just a symptom of a rather bigger issue. Still "minor", but what annoys me in particular is that they had got it right in Mountain Lion and they haven't changed a lot in Mail in Mavericks, so the bug doesn't come from some "innovation", no changes/enhancements whatsoever in Mail, so there's no excuse for this bug, imho.

I've got almost the same problem but in Mountain Lion. It's not minor. In filters I've assigned a sound and color to Jane. Originally, under the same system and email version, it worked. Jane's email arrived, the notice showed up, the sound happened and the email appeared simultaneously in my inbox with the color.

Interestingly enough, I didn't have any problem in Mountain Lion.

But what you report here, i.e. the delayed sound playing when there is some other mail activity happened to me as well, in Mavericks.

All in all, I think that the Mail Activity is quite messed up, because sometimes (default or user created) rules don't apply or apply in a weird form. And I include here the rule which triggers an Apple Script to play a sound when the count of unread messages in Inbox is greater than zero (which reportedly solved the sound delay problem - not for me).

So yes, I insist once again, Apple should solve this. And please, all of you reading this and experiencing any problem with Mail, send feedback to Apple by going to Mail > Provide Mail Feedback in your app.

As far as filters in iOS goes, from what I know, you cannot create any.

I'm sorry for moving offtopic, but regarding @mmhere's previous question, about filters/rules, I found this article today: http://9to5mac.com/2014/01/11/how-to-use-apple-mail-rules-to-automatically-filte r-out-unwanted-messages/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed %3A+9To5Mac-MacAllDay+%289+to+5+Mac+-+Apple+Intelligence%29

And it has occurred to me: once you create a rule in Mail.app (or directly on icloud.com/mail), it's automatically applied to any of your Macs/iOS devices 🙂 (D'oh...)

Hope this helps and sorry again for being offtopic.

I have the same problem- notification sound is delayed or not played. It is annoying and often confusing. I have 4 mail accounts and all was OK before Mavericks. I am getting a little annoyed with all the bugs after each update...

I have update to Mavericks and have the same problem. I have two mails.

I use only one gmail account and have the same issue!

Just wondering if anyone found a solution to this? I have one gmail account and sometimes get no sound/sometimes delayed sound. Any help would be much appreciated.

I'm not sure if this problem is still present. I gave up using the Mac Mail app months ago when support was not able to get it to work with my cox.net email accounts.

Good luck

OS X Mavericks 10.9.5, one gmail account and one MS exchange. Have the same issue. iPhone notification, mac os notification in the right top corner happen at the same time. Message is available in Mail.app and the notification sound is played about 10-20 seconds later.

This is happening with Exchange Servers too. Not only IMAP or POP.