Silent Mail Syndrome

[Lionel Mandrake]

Both of my Macs have developed Silent Mail Syndrome. New messages arrive without making a noise. When I send a message, there is no whooshing sound. WTF?

[NV Whino]

1. I suffer from the silent boot up syndrome

Hard drive crashed. An apple genius fixed it. It has never bonged since.

[REP]

2. Have you tried resetting your alert sounds ... or checking if 'mute' has been pressed?

Sent mail sound is called 'swoosh;' new mail alert I believe is 'ding.' (I have mine all reset to custom sounds.)

[Lionel Mandrake]

3. I don't know where to find any of that stuff.

And another thing: when I click on the envelope icon to check for new messages, there should be a brief tone if there are no new messages. That sound has also disappeared.

Perhaps I should mention that the Silent Mail Syndrome on one of my Macs started when I downloaded the newest version of "Mountain Lion", OS X 10.8.1.

[REP]

4. System preference control panel

If you need more help, PM me and I'll take screen shots.