no mail sounds after installing El Capitan

After setting up an IMAP account and disabling my POP account I have come to the conclusion that at least this version of Mail is not friendly to POP accounts. It expects an IMAP account and its behavior reflects that.

Interesting discussion. I've just upgraded to El Cap and sure enough, no incoming Mail sound. I checked and unchecked sounds in Preferences but still no sound. Then I checked the speakers and found sound was turned off. Putting the volume up, I now get the sounds.

This may not help those still suffering from this problem but I thought I'd share anyway.

I updated to 10-11-2 and mail sounds are back.

Yep, after 10.11.2 Mail sounds are back! (Except fetch mail). 🙂 (Mine is a POP account)

Yes, following the latest upgrade to El Capitan, incoming mail sound to both of my accounts (one is POP) is back - but not deleted the "rules" version yet (just disabled) until I'm sure it's permanent! With the iTunes Store issue (port 443 error) being resolved in the last iTunes update and the missing Keychain First Aid password field box being resolved by omitting the First Aid part altogether, only have one minor bug left now - Apple on a roll!

Is your trash folder being emptied?

No, but I have just noticed that another folder which is VERY IMPORTANT to me is empty!!!!!!!!

I hope you have backup.

I rebuilt the mailbox and everything reappeared.

All good on mine (POP3 account) now too after 10.11.2 ....sound alert is back for incoming mail on both fetch and automatic checking for mail. Early days yet,but both fingers crossed, it performs consistently and well from now on. Thank you Apple.

Still not fixed.

No sound for incoming mails, but sound when mails are deleted.

EC 10.11.2, POP3 Account.

I never recall getting a sound when emails are deleted. Check your preferences in mail, and try a hard restart. If that doesn't work, try downloading the combo updater from Apple and reinstall all the updates together. The author of Cocktail posted a notice that a lot of these problems are due to corrupted files that don't get replaced when just updating from one version to the next. He said beta testers are testing the combo update, not the actual update in the App Store.

Thank G-d! That's happened to me as well. It's pretty scary.

same here,

For POP Mail, no sound for first mail fetch, later mails are OK. 😠

I had made a clean install.

El Capitan 10.11.2

I also have no incoming mail sound since upgrading to El Capitan. I'm now on 10.11.2. I tried to create the suggested script but I get this syntax error when trying to play it:

error "Mail got an error: sh: -c: line 0: unexpected EOF while looking for matching `''

sh: -c: line 1: syntax error: unexpected end of file" number 2

any ideas?

The script I created is: (where MY NAME is the name of my user file)

tell application "Mail"

do shell script "afplay '/Users/MY NAME//Music/iTunes/iTunes Media/Music/Unknown Artist/Unknown Album/you've got mail-hanks.wav'"

end tell

If I put this path into Go To in finder, it plays the sound, so I don't understand why this is not working for me.

😟