custom email notification ringtomes

Depends on what phone you are using and what email app.

 

The application on your phone to open your email. If you didn't download a different one, like K9 or Maildroid, you're probably using the default Samsung email app. Go to that, then long press on an account among those listed, then choose "account settings". There should be an option under there for notification tones.

 

Open the email app. Then menu -> settings and there should be an option in there to change the notification

 

I think you made a mistake. I use a Samsung device with touchwiz too, so we're supposed to have similar settings. For some reason I seem to think you made a wrong turn somewhere. Did you go into Settings>Accounts and Sync? Or Did you go to Email>Menu>Settings? You should go through the latter, then open the account settings for each account.

 

You used to have to make a folder for media>audio>ringtones, notifications on the earlier Galaxy phones.

I've just trasferred that folder over to any new phone and have always been able to set custom tones.

 

No - regular/main settings> sounds. My phone has ringtones and notification settings a tad differently since I'm rooted and using Cyanogen

I put the media folder on the card via the computer.

 

Oh wait, you mean the ringtones you want to use are still in the SD card? You need to put them on the folder where ringtones are supposed to go. Might not be able to help you there since folder structure on ICS is different than on what I have.