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use of vocal announcement for new messages when using yahoo mail

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krhacker
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some time ago I configured by thunderbird account to announce "You have mail" and it worked reliably until frontier moved email support to yahoo. Since then I get the "you have mail" announcement for a low percentage of new mail messages received. I contacted yahoo mail support and they responded that this is a problem with thunderbird and has nothing to do with yahoo. I suspect it's a matter of which process "sees" the new message first - thunderbird of yahoo mail. I've tried not having a yahoo mail window active, but that makes no difference. Most of the time now I get only a "gong" sound when a new mail message is received rather than "You have mail" voice notification.

some time ago I configured by thunderbird account to announce "You have mail" and it worked reliably until frontier moved email support to yahoo. Since then I get the "you have mail" announcement for a low percentage of new mail messages received. I contacted yahoo mail support and they responded that this is a problem with thunderbird and has nothing to do with yahoo. I suspect it's a matter of which process "sees" the new message first - thunderbird of yahoo mail. I've tried not having a yahoo mail window active, but that makes no difference. Most of the time now I get only a "gong" sound when a new mail message is received rather than "You have mail" voice notification.

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Lin
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It's not clear to me from your description whether you use Thunderbird to interface with your Yahoo mail account, or if you have a separate app for Yahoo, or you use Yahoo web mail.

Yahoo is correct, the "new mail" sound for Thunderbird is local to your computer. Out of the box, Thunderbird will use the default system sound, which might clash with a separate program trying to use that sound at the same time. You can configure Thunderbird to use a different sound. See <Settings | General | Incoming | Play a sound | Use the following sound file...>.

A Yahoo app or web page would have it's own sound or might use the default system sound, which can also be changed in the operating system settings.

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