Added esound + dependancies, which forced a removal of pulseaudio-esound-compat and now sounds do play correctly in Tbird.
I don't know to what extent the removal of pulseaudio-esound-compat will have an impact on my environment though. But I do have sounds back in thunderbird now.
I followed the advice of the following bug :
https:/ /bugzilla. mozilla. org/show_ bug.cgi? id=378155
Added esound + dependancies, which forced a removal of pulseaudio- esound- compat and now sounds do play correctly in Tbird.
I don't know to what extent the removal of pulseaudio- esound- compat will have an impact on my environment though. But I do have sounds back in thunderbird now.