Since I began using Thunderbird some time ago, I have missed having a new mail notification in my tray. Of all the things I miss from Windows, that’s about it, but it has been missed. It’s time consuming to have to check my email manually every so often to ensure I know when I get new mail.
Thankfully, I found a solution recently. It’s a Firefox extension and is called the Mozilla New Mail Icon extension. I had no problems installing it and it works perfectly.
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3 Responses to New Mail Tray Icon for Thunderbird on Linux
Free Email Tutorials
May 7th, 2006 at 12:35 pm
Note that if you are using Firefox, and Thunderbird is the default mail handler on your computer, Firefox’s Tools menu should indicate between parenthesis the number of unread emails in Thunderbird.
HTH!
Dan
April 6th, 2007 at 3:31 pm
This extension doesnt work for the newer versions of firefox
sonapax
January 29th, 2010 at 1:39 am
A system tray extension for linux. It can be added to firefox, thunderbird, sunbird, seamonkey 2 and songbird, allowing to set up custom icon, minimizing to tray instead of closing, display the number of unread messages in mailing applications, control playback using multimedia keys in songbird, and other features …
https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/thunderbird/addon/4868