How to make Thunderbird notify of new email like Evolution?

Question

In Ubuntu when new mail arrives Evolution changes message indicator to green color. I have migrated from Evolution to Thunderbird and that is why looking for how to make Thunderbird react like Evolution once a new mail arrives.

UPDATE 1

I have forgotten to note that I don't have administrator privileges in my working computer.

Thanks

Solution 1

There is an extension that integrates Thunderbird with the Ubuntu Messaging menu (and also provides NotifyOSD notifications) that comes in a PPA. Here's a screenshot:

To install it in Ubuntu, use the following commands:

sudo add-apt-repository ppa:ruben-verweij/thunderbird-indicator
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install xul-ext-indicator libnotify-bin

You'll then find it in the Thunderbird extensions. The PPA provides packages for Ubuntu 10.10 and 11.04, though the 11.04 version is a bit more advanced and allows you only display notifications for messages that arrive in a certain folder, etc.

There was also an add-on for Thunderbird, based on the above extension, but it has since been removed.

Solution 2

Or you can use popper. This is an e-mail checker applications, and it can start Thunderbird too.

Solution 3

In latest releases of Ubuntu - 12.04 and later, Thunderbird is default mail-client and by default, notifies of new mail.

So, I would suggest upgrading to 12.04 or 12.10.

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For details on how to configure notifications for selected Folders in Thunderbird please refer to this post.

Comments

[Takkat]

you also may have a look at Popper

[Bakhtiyor]

The problem is that I don't have administrator privileges.

[Bakhtiyor]

Besides it works only with Ubuntu Unity as it is mentioned in its mozilla add-ons page.

[htorque]

They are wrong, it works fine in a normal GNOME session. All you need is the indicator-messages menu and your system got to be 32-bit.

[Bakhtiyor]

I have 64 bit OS in addition to all these problems.

[Manish Sinha]

I used that and it throws up knows issues. The problem is that probably of some issues in packaging. libnotify-bin should be a dependency for xul-ext-indicator I for got the libnotify-bin and used to get error every now and then

[phil294]

ppa doesnt exist