221170 - Custom mail notification sound does not work

Status: RESOLVED FIXED

(Thunderbird :: Preferences, defect)

Description

[Len Perroots]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; PPC Mac OS X; en-us) AppleWebKit/85 (KHTML, like Gecko) Safari/85
Build Identifier: 

When selecting custom .wav sound and selecting a .wav sound, the default system sound still 
sounds when receiving mail.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
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Comment 1

[José Jeria]

Same problem on Windows XP, using build 20031126.

Comment 2

[Frank Schwalfenberg]

Most probalbly it's an old bug,from mozilla (1.1).
Little workaround:
Browse with mozilla direktly to the file:
On Windows you might get an address like:
file:///c:%5CWINDOWS%5CMEDIA%5C_mail.wav  or
file://c:\WINDOWS\MEDIA\_mail.wav in both cases you have to change each "%5C"
and "\" to "/" so that it will look like:
file:///c:/WINDOWS/MEDIA/_mail.wav 
Should work on most OS'es....
The problem is: the "Browse"-Button gets dir- & file- info from the OS, but uses
internally the latter writing.
Hopefully it will be fixed in future, it might be annoying to "normal" users...

Comment 3

[Stephan Bucher]

This feature works in the OS/2 ports (1.5 and 1.6b).

Comment 4

[Stephan Bucher]

This is still not working with Mozilla 1.6 (Win 98/2).

Comment 5

[Eliot Lear]

(In reply to comment #2)

First, I'm seeing the problem with Release 1.6 and OSX 10.3.2.

I've tried the workaround on the Mac, and I've tried numerous varieties of file
 name and URL, but was not able to find one that worked.  If there's a
workaround I couldn't find it.

Comment 6

[Scott MacGregor]

This is fixed in the latest nightlies.