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10.5: Avoid Mail's 'no sound for new messages' bug: "Apple Mail.app does not play the new mail alert sound in a consistent manner, and this bug has been there since the first release of 10.5. This occurs when Mail.app uses IMAP's IDLE command to discover a new message -- if that's the case, then the new mail alert is not played. The alert is only played when Mail.app uses the periodic polling to discover a new message.Therefore, the solution is to turn off the IDLE command, and make the polling interval Read more [...]







