Are any other Thunderbird 9 users not getting any notification sounds? Since updating to 12.1 from 11.4 TB’s notification sounds don’t work. The wav files play fine with a media player (smplayer) but are silent in TB. All I sometimes get is a pop sound.
No other TB9 users here? I’ve tried googling for this problem and only came up with this happening with older versions of TB on other distros but no solutions. I’d just like to hear if TB notifications sounds are working for others.
Yes, I use Thunderbird. You just need to install “pulseaudio-esound-compat” and your sounds will work.
That worked perfectly. How did you come by that solution? I searched everywhere and didn’t find an answer.
Cool, glad it worked. I ran into this issue a few years back with another distro and stumbled on the solution, so whenever I do a new install I add “esound” so T-Bird will have sound. I use the “FEBE” Firefox addon which will back up your profile and it needs “esound” to work properly too.
Hi all,
Hosed my system, so re-installed. Funnily enough I too had no sound notifications from TB (but did before re-installing), so followed oboedad55’s advice which worked a charm 
Thanks for the advice, now in a folder for safe keeping.
Yay, glad it helped. I discovered the solution a couple of years ago in a post on the Ubuntu forums. With each distro the actual file names differ, but it always involves esound. If you use the FEBE Firefox addon it fixes the sound with that too, so it seems to be a Mozilla deal.
Am 12.04.2012 21:36, schrieb oboedad55:
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> ashley194;2455635 Wrote:
>> Hi all,
>>
>> Hosed my system, so re-installed. Funnily enough I too had no sound
>> notifications from TB (but did before re-installing), so followed
>> oboedad55’s advice which worked a charm
>>
>> Thanks for the advice, now in a folder for safe keeping.
>
> Yay, glad it helped. I discovered the solution a couple of years ago in
> a post on the Ubuntu forums. With each distro the actual file names
> differ, but it always involves esound. If you use the FEBE Firefox addon
> it fixes the sound with that too, so it seems to be a Mozilla deal.
All Mozilla projects were relying on libesd for sound notifications.
libesd needs an esound daemon or the pulseaudio compat package for that
one to output any sound.
As esound is deprecated since quite some time this will change with
Firefox and Thunderbird 12 where they use libcanberra (which also can
have issues though 
as you can see here:
https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=753243
https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=632530 (older one probably
fixed)
Wolfgang