Thunderbird, Linux, and New Email Notification
Now that I think of it, I’ve been using Mozilla Thunderbird for more than 3 years now, it is one of the best email clients I have ever seen, and with the available extensions, it can do almost anything.
At home, I only open Thunderbird when I want to check for new email, but at work, I like to leave it open all the time in case I get any emails from my coworkers. In Windows, Thunderbird has a nice little notification icon that appears in the system tray when a new message arrives, when I recently switched to Linux on my work PC, I started to get annoyed by the fact that this icon doesn’t appear when new messages come, so I have to check my mailbox every few minutes.
I have tried multiple notification plugins, but never found anything interesting, till today. I stumbled upon moztraybiff, which does exactly that, and enables you to minimize Thunderbird to the system tray, which is neat.
Hmmmmm,,,,,,, It takes you three years to discover this, you are the man