The play sound on new email worked prior to SeaMonkey-2.11 but has not
worked since. I have searched for many days on the net to find others
with this problem and or any mention of it in bug reports. There were
problems sometime back with Thunderbird but they are not relevant today.
Here are the particulars for the system in use
User agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux i686; rv:15.0) Gecko/20120830
Firefox/15.0 SeaMonkey/2.12
about:config
mail.biff.play_sound true
mail.biff.play_sound.type 1
mail.biff.play_sound.url points to .wav file that does exists and is
playable by all system media players
mail.biff.show_alert true
plugins
Mplayer-3.55
VLC twoflower-2.0.3
There are other non related plugins like Adobe Flash, Adblock Plus,
NoScript etc..
I Just recently added the Mplayer plugin to see if it would solve the
problem, it doesn't. I have disabled all the relevant plugins and
enabled them one by one all to the same end.
I have no idea how to determine what player this feature is using or how
to trace down why it fails to play a sound. Having run strace when
running SeaMonkey it tells me nothing I can make any use of.
The system uses ALSA as the default audio hardware player and all of
that works. ESD is on the system and this was mentioned for earlier
solutions in Thunderbird however it doesn't fix he problem now.
I tried using the root account which has no profile in use and I
assigned the sound file through preferences and notifications and it
still doesn't work. It's not a permissions problem that I can see. I am
making the assumption it's not the SeaMonkey account user profile since
root has a fresh unused profile and sound still fails.
If not exactly spelled out above the system is using Linux slack-13.37
and all the media applications work fine. As I said above, earlier
versions prior to SeaMonkey-2.11 worked fine. I am using SMTP and have
two email accounts in the user profile aside from the gathering of
UseNet accounts.
This appears to have little to do with the email accounts and how they
are set up as when selecting a sound to play in preferences the sound
should preview even if there are no actual email accounts. I should add
that the default audio notification does not work either.
Any idea, suggestions or better yet, solution would end a lot of
frustration here.
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