If you go to the Edit/Preferences/General tab, there is a check box for playing a sound when new mail arrives. If you have that checked and it's not working, there may be an issue with your sound setup.
Are your other system sounds working?
I have had problems with new installs of Kubuntu before. I had to be sure I had enabled Pulse Audio correctly.
There is an add-on for Thunderbird called ToneQuilla that allows you to set up different sounds for different email filtering rules. If you're like me, you probably get many mail list mailings, for instance, which you may not want to be constantly alterting you when you're in the midst of something important; apparently, with that extension you can set up filters and only be notified when messages you consider important come in. I will be installing and playing with that later today as it sounds interesting.
David
--- In LINUX_Newbies@yahoogroups.com, Jerry <bearjercares@...> wrote:
>
> Does anyone on the list know an easy and sure way of getting Mozilla
> Thunderbird configured to provide an audible signal whenever email is
> delivered to the inbox? It seems the previous versions of Thunderbird
> had this very good feature, but I'm finding conflicting information
> while trying to search online if they even have kept that feature with
> later updates. I just upgraded to Kubuntu 10.10 and using Thunderbird
> 3.1.7. I do see the very brief tab that pops up in the lower, right
> corner. Is that configurable so that it will stay up until you dismiss
> it, or at least for more than a split second, if the audible signal is
> no longer available? Thanks, -Jerry in Michigan
>
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