no mail sounds after installing El Capitan

I have still the same problem under El Capitan 10.11.1 Never had so many problems with any osx before.

Everyone affected should report the problem to Apple then they *might* take some action:

https://bugreport.apple.com/

From my understanding, they already know.

A new report will get a

"Engineering has determined that your bug report (22970215) is a duplicate of another issue (20998385) and will be closed."

So it's useless, right?

You're probably right, if our postings are just being read and answered by a computer at Apple HQ. But, if a real person is reading them, then it might do some good if everyone sent him (her) a bug report.

I agree. I think everyone who is experiencing this should send a bug report:

Use http://www.apple.com/feedback/ and choose the Mail option.

I have already requested a "revert to Yosemite" option be made available perhaps that would be a good thing to ask for as well...

I took your advice and reported this to Apple in the hope that this problem might be addressed.

great... let's hope others do the same and Apple actually does something soon about this

Hope so too, and that they are honest in their response,. They have known about this bug since the Beta release in August!

Just upgraded to 10.11.1 and still no sound. Bug not fixed in the new version

I also took you advice and complained about the Mail sounds issue. (Shades of Microsoft...!)

Ditto with 10.11.1. But I found another bug that is possibly related and even worse for me. The "send to mail" function out of Safari, which I frequently use, results in a crash of the ShareMail application, now. I reported the latter issue as a bug to Apple. As this is really a crash with a crash reporter alert I hope they respond quicker to it. And if this is really related to the mail sound bug that one should be fixed as well, then (x my fingers).

I have had the same problem ever since updating to El Capitan.

Submitted feedback to Apple and waited patiently for an update to fix this "Major" problem.

Now After the Update OS X El Capitan 10.11.1 did NOT fix the issue, I found a solution that works for me.

Since None of the Sound features Now work for me in Mail except the "Mail Sent.aiff" for outgoing mail, I was forced to try "everything" including resetting Mail completely, but nothing worked, except this:

Using My same Rules in Mail I just wrote Apple Scripts to perform the functions I needed:

Here is an example of how to play a sound for New Mail:

Using the "Script Editor.app" in Applications/Utilities

Just open then select "New Document"

Enter this script:

tell application "Mail"

do shell script "afplay '/Users/MyAUDIO/BeepBeepBeep.wav'"

end tell

You will NEED to change the Path and the name of the sound file to one of your liking.

Use the "Play" arrow to test if the sound plays and test for script errors.

Just save the file to: "~/Library/Application Scripts/com.apple.mail" folder with a name like: PlaySound.scpt

Now, just go to the Mail "Rules" and use "Run AppleScript" for your Action.

If you placed your Script in the Folder above then it will be listed in AppleScripts Dropdown when creating the Rule.

Use something simple like: Check for "Any recipient" "contains" "@"

You should be able to get all your Rules working by creating an Apple Script to Perform the Action Instead using the "Built-in" actions that no longer seem to work...

Good luck!

I'm glad that you're happy with your efforts, but, I'm not ready to settle for what I would call a Rube Goldberg solution. This is an issue that Apple needs to fix now.

That's great, thanks!

It works perfectly.

I use the condition

If "any" of the following conditions are met:

"account" is "Gmail" (< of course select your account here).

But I think it's the same effect.

Anyway, great job, here is our fix!

Excellent !! That works perfectly. Thanks !

I now have a quacking duck as my incoming mail sound :-)

It's not an ideal solution though. I would guarantee that most folk using Macs have never heard of Script Editor let alone how to use it. Apple need to fix this!!