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Bug 88451

Summary: No sound from thunderbird when a new mail arrives
Product: Gentoo Linux Reporter: Mike Lothian <mike>
Component: Current packagesAssignee: Mozilla Gentoo Team <mozilla>
Status: RESOLVED UPSTREAM    
Severity: normal CC: cyrius, nelchael, phajdan.jr
Priority: High    
Version: unspecified   
Hardware: All   
OS: Linux   
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Runtime testing required: ---

Description Mike Lothian 2005-04-09 03:24:51 UTC
Sound isn't played when a new mail arives. I've tried using another wav file. And I've also tried using artsdsp thunderbird as a soundwrapper but nothing seems to work.  I think it's because I'm using kde and not gnome


Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
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Comment 1 R!tman 2005-07-20 06:14:38 UTC
The reason is that esdplay is used to play the .wav file. Emerge esound to get
this command.

For me, unfortunately, esdplay does not offer a good playback quality. The sound
is not good and the beginning of the file is chopped off. The file worked
without any problems with aplay.

I read that not using the ebuild version of thunderbird but the one provided by
www.mozilla.org does not have this problem. 

I think this should be changed in the ebuild to use aplay instead of esdplay, if
possible.
Comment 2 Krzysztof Pawlik (RETIRED) gentoo-dev 2005-12-02 03:36:22 UTC
As a workaround try using this extension for Thunderbird:
http://globs.org/articles.php?lng=en&pg=9 It can execute any command when new
mail arrives, so creating a small script around aplay to play any wav file and
pointing Yamb at it does the job.
Comment 3 Christian Marie (RETIRED) gentoo-dev 2006-12-18 20:02:24 UTC
Is this still a problem? Is it also reproducable with the binary?
Comment 4 Christian Marie (RETIRED) gentoo-dev 2006-12-20 21:53:05 UTC
Closing, stale and upstream. Reopen if you disagree.
Comment 5 Jakub Moc (RETIRED) gentoo-dev 2008-02-05 13:02:53 UTC
*** Bug 208992 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***