no mail sounds after installing El Capitan

Do you have POP accounts, or IMAP?

I think Mail is now not comfortable with POP accounts, and with IMAP, there is no notification when mail is checked, because that happens automatically and periodically. I get incoming mail sound when there actually is some incoming (non-junk) mail.

Yes, I did read it was possibly a problem related to POP accounts. I only have one account in Mail and it is indeed a POP account. However, changing to IMAP is not an option for me. At this stage, I'm just happy that at least my iPhone notifies me about incoming mail... until Apple fixes this bug.

I have a POP and IMAP account and as previously reported they still continue to produce the mail received sound and trigger the notification banner following latest OS update, so it can work. I read a while back if banners is not functioning properly to go into Notifications (System Preferences) and untick/retick the various options for the problem app (apparently it resets something!) - with respect to the mail received sound try putting a custom sound file in your ~/Library/Sounds folder then open Mail Preferences/General and if you select "New mail sound" you should see it appear at the bottom without the need to import - just select it and either close Preferences or click on another tab first and then close Preferences (the latter some report forces the setting change!).

Not importing or using any of the pre installed sounds, for me anyhow gets around the intermittent problem which is also being reported by others, give it a go and see if things improve.

To SiHancox: Thanks for the possible fixes. I already tried all of those without success unfortunately. Also forgot to mention that the sound I've inserted under 'Preferences-General-New Message Sound' plays only when I DELETE a message. Very strange! I've read this in other people's comments too.

Was worth a try, never had the mix up you are experiencing, just lost the mail received sound which has probably been more straight forward for Apple to fix - only other suggestion is to create a temp new user account and try from that (you will have to add your mail account also) - but if that works not sure how you would use that info to sort your original one out.

Well I've finally given up with my POP account. Impossible to set it up correctly in El Capitan. My provider also seems to force IMAP onto their customers... so I've given in and set up my account as IMAP. It is now working normally with notifications and sounds working. 😕

I'm now on El Capitan v 10.11.2 and just updated my iPhone to 9.2 and suddenly the 'ping' is back for incoming Mail on my computer. Not sure what the connection is but that is working now.

An upgrade to 10.11.2 will bring back mail sounds. But you may have to reset them, as you have to reset your camera also. My POP accounts are working fine now.

Thank you Birgit, I'll keep a watch and see what happens.

I notice now, that when I go to log in (as on this site), I get a banner telling me that 'Safari wants to use the log-in password' but when I enter my own password it 'shakes it's head!'. I then click cancel and it goes away with nothing typed in? Any ideas on this one?

Passwords have become such a PITA, but we need them. Have you checked with your Safari/Prefs/Passwords to see just what your password might be? Also check in your KeyChain.

I do know my password and it's in the keychain which as always, automatically fills in as I saved it. I still get the message (as I did just now) but I now just cancel it and I get logged in anyway. I'm hoping that this isn't a security issue.

@ Birgit Rodes, @ Granny-v I am on 10.11.2, but this did not bring back sounds. Also had issue where every time I opened Mail, my accounts were offline and I had an exclamation mark and error message. But all I had to do was click on 'Bring accounts online' and they were automatically online. Also had an issue where password was being asked (and I know my password) but it wasn't accepted. But if I clicked on escape I was connected anyway. Whatever.... I now created an IMAP account and all those problems have disappeared thankfully. Hope you guys manage to find a solution.

Well, I feel pretty dumb right now. I've been following these posts and searching for a solution to the lack of Mail sounds for quite sometime and just found the solution to my problem (the "Rule" solution was working for incoming mail just fine, but no whoosh for outgoing.)

I use external speakers via the headphone jack and apparently when upgrading to Yosemite the Sound Effects were rerouted to my internal speakers (I just never noticed it as all other sounds were working.) Upgrading to El Capitan didn't resolve my lack of attention.

"System Preferences/Sound/Sound Effects" Play Sound Effects through: Headphones Problem solved

I have POP email accounts

OH MY GOSH, I forgot to mention that one; happened to me too. Very annoying.

Yes, I also have experienced the same problems you describe.

One thing I do notice in the Mail.app package contents is that THERE IS NO SOUND FILE for fetching mail when none is found. This must be a Change in El Cap. For those worrying about not getting the "No new mail sound" after a fetch, you won't get one - because it doesn't exist! Here is a pic straight from the package contents (these are the only sound files in the package):

I played the "Mail fetch error.aiff" sound, and it is a totally different sound from the quiet beep you would get if there is no mail. It's a sound to alert you that there is TROUBLE FETCHING MAIL, not that there is no mail to fetch. The other two sounds are what is to be expected. I ALWAYS get the mail sent sound, so I am not worried about that. What I am concerned with is the erratic behavior of the New Mail sound. I have actually gotten it upon new mail arrival a few scant times, but 99% of the time nothing.

I also get the behavior where it will play the New Mail sound when I DELETE a new email as others have posted about.