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- #Thunderbird mail notification windows
(All via IMAP.)īefore maturing into full time Linux usage for my emailing needs I was able to create totally different visible & audible notifications for new emails via extensions and built-in functions of my 2 TB instances. I use Thunderbird for several gmail acounts, Seamonkey for several others, and soon shall also use Evolution for 2 which can only be called 'other'. Nope, not simple a'tall is what I've found. Such a seemingly simple subject - email alerts.right ? Just tried this then signed up to say thank you, the confirmation email for this sites account worked perfectly with the native notifications, even clicking the notification opened up thunderbird, this is the only thing I feel thenderbird has been missing, I can't work out why, if the options are there in the guts of the program, why they can't just put the option to choose tTB notifications or Win10 notis, I'm not a programmer but surely it'd be easy to implement in the options?(Never mind.we ain't got any steenken email alerts.) Oh, and I of corse need to set _balloon to true, _alert to false and eSystemBackend to true in TB Options, Advanced, and Cofig Editor. Also the little TB envelope icon that just showed for a second before when a new mail arrives, stays in the Taskbar until the new mail is read.
#Thunderbird mail notification windows
Unfortunate that clicking the notification cannot open the email (or Thunderbird at all), but this is definitely a huge help.Ĭlicking the notification works for me (TB 78.2.2) in Windows, if I go into Windows settings for the Taskbar, under Messages click choose what Icons that is showed in Taskbar, and toggle Thunderbird to On (my was Off). In conjunction with setting user_pref("eSystemBackend", true), this nearly makes it fully native. You can't open TB through it by clicking the notification. Notification should open in the Windows notifications. You can try to set in Options > Advanced > Config Editor. (In reply to Richard Marti (:Paenglab) from comment #8) It feels like the Tb devs don't use it themselves or just don't care. Thunderbird always needs so many user hacks to be useful. So I had to replace the whole thing by an extension (Mailbox Alert) and an external process ( - not very reliable though). It still has its own clumsy thing that doesn't integrate visually and won't even notify every message but only one until you give Tb some attention.
#Thunderbird mail notification windows 10
But it still doesn't use the Windows 10 platform that's been around for like 5 years. I'd be totally fine with notifications only showing while Tb is running. So we need no background process for Thunderbird. With no server connection, no notifications could ever be triggered. When I close Thunderbird, I want all server connections to be closed. While I agree that browsers should be able to show push notifications while they're not running (they currently only do on mobile platforms, again different lifecycle with background services), I disagree that mail programs should do this. I know nothing about games and Word (6.0 to 2019) has never shown me any notification. Alarms is an UWP ("modern") app that has a different lifecycle than desktop apps. Settings isn't sending notifications, that's other parts of the system. Skype is always active in the background (yet it fails to notify me for a while, but that's another topic). All such notifications need some program to run. No program can do anything while it's not started.