no more new mail notifications : system beep replaced the usual sound and no "envelope" in notification area

[Clairewitch]

Binary package hint: thunderbird

I'm using Ubuntu 7.10 and Thunderbird "package 2.0.0.12+nobinonly 2.0.0.12+nobinonly mail/news client with RSS and integrated spam filters support". Thunderbird used to work alright and the sounds and new mail notification as well but i can't figure what happened : when i get new mails, it doesn't show on the notification area as it used to and i get a system beep instead of the usual sound. I de-activated system beeps and i now just get no sound at all when mails arrive... Sorry if my explanation's not so good (i'm french...), hope i made myself clear.

ProblemType: Bug
Architecture: amd64
Date: Tue Apr 22 00:34:03 2008
Dependencies:

DistroRelease: Ubuntu 7.10
Package: mozilla-thunderbird None [modified: /var/lib/dpkg/info/mozilla-thunderbird.list]
PackageArchitecture: all
SourcePackage: thunderbird
Uname: Linux Chloe 2.6.22-14-generic #1 SMP Tue Feb 12 02:46:46 UTC 2008 x86_64 GNU/Linux

[Andrew Starr-Bochicchio (andrewsomething)]

As far as I know, Thunderbird has never displayed an icon in the notification area. Also the system beep is some thing that has annoyed me for a long time. It's not new. Any chance that you had another program installed that you forgot about? Like mail-notification or cgmail?

In the preference menu, under the general tab there are two check boxes: "Show an alert" and "Play a sound" If you check the first you will receive a pop up with each new mail. The second by default will play the system beep, but it is configurable. You can select a different sound to play.

[Clairewitch (claire-liard)]

Thank you so much for your fast answer. For what i could find on the web
and what you tell me, i wonder if i was hallucinating or something...
Anyway, i found a mozilla plugin for the notification-area and chose
another sound, everything works alright, i guess it's just a bit weird
to admit that i never had these before as i thought... Anyway, evrything
now works like charm and i thank you for answering so quickly !

Cheers !

[John Vivirito (gnomefreak)]

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