Re: xmailbox and sound...

[Adam Williams <awilliam@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

>1) Ran the sound myself: /usr/bin/play /usr/bin/sounds/mpmail.wav 
<enter>
>and that works fine.
>2) Switched the order of lines in .Xdefaults thinking that order might
>have something to do with it, it doesn't apparently, <bloop>.

So your doing something like:
xmailbox*mailSndFile: /usr/lib/sounds/ugotmail.au
xmailbox*mailSndComm: /usr/bin/play %s

Does it play the sound as well as the beep, or just beep with no "sound"?

>3) chmod'ed mpmail.wav to ugo+rwx, thinking that the rights aren't
>right. <snicker>

if you can /usr/bin/play it isn't permissions.

Have you tried strace-ing it an see-ing if it is trying to exec 
/usr/bin/play and failing for some reason?