Re: [opensuse] Thunderbird and System Tray

Kai Ponte said the following on 11/26/2008 10:15 AM:
I had been thinking of switching to Thunderbird. However, I noticed
it appears to be lacking one essential feature - a system tray icon
showing the number of emails available.

I'm on 10.3/KDE 3.5 and have done some searching. I see there is one
KDE applet - alltray - and moztraybiff for showing items in the
system tray area.

However, neither show the number of emails currently unread. Is there
somethign you all are using?

No, because it makes no sense. At all. Certainly not for me and I
think I can show it won' make sense for a lot of other people.

Firstly, I have a number of accounts of various IMAP servers all over
the western hemisphere. YMMV but I'm told this isn't odd. I own a
couple of domains and have various mailboxes at them; I have mailboxes
with old clients and sites I support and I have mailboxes for various
reasons. In actual fact I don't download much mail onto my
laptop/workstation.

while I access most of those accounts by IMAP I have a few POP accounts
as well. I run FETCHMAIL to pull those and download them and run them
though PROCMAIL which in turn filters and puts them in various folders.

As a result there are about 20 places where there might be a "new mail"
for me. Some of those folders might also change as I move mail from one
of my inboxes to a folder.

All this is front-ended with Thunderbird. When Thunderbird is active
it will show me the number of 'unread' in any folder or inbox.

But trying to show me a single figure for unread mail doesn't make
sense! Not least of all because I'm not dealing with an inbox on the
machine - laptop/workstation - on which I read mail.

And yes, this is like the situation that exists for many corporate users
of MS Exchange, but more akin to connection to many servers at the same
time.

Thunderbird is a great MUA; accounts and aliases and IMAP make things so
flexible. MS-Windows/Outlook/Exchange users get baffled by this, at
first because it seems so complicated, but then when I show what's going
on the see its well compartmentalized and managed and incredibly
straight forward.


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