On Sunday, 13 בMay 2012 19:22:20 Eli Billauer wrote: > Hello all, > I've finally started working with Thunderbird under Linux (FC12, with Thunderbird 3.0.7). The old settings were migrated perfectly,
If your "new" one is 3.0.7, I am afraid to ask what was the old ;-) $ rpm -q thunderbird thunderbird-11.0.1-1.fc15.i686 As you can see I use a pretty old Fedora (F15, plan to upgrade directly to F17, before F15 is EOL). Still, using a network-facing application which did not get any security updates for several years, is... (ok, let's call it brave, not to be offensive...) > and all is working fine. Well, there's a thing I miss. > In Windows, there used to be an icon when new mail has arrived. This icon doesn't show up on Linux. Obviously in Linux its a separate application (which is hopefully slimmer, since it runs all the time). IIRC, Gnome used to have a nice applet called "mail-notification": http://www.nongnu.org/mailnotify This supported multiple accounts/mailboxes/protocols, etc. I believe you can find it pre-packaged even for your pre-historic Fedora. Cheers, -- Oron Peled Voice: +972-4-8228492 o...@actcom.co.il http://users.actcom.co.il/~oron "Man cannot discover new oceans unless he has the courage to lose sight of the shore..." _______________________________________________ Haifux mailing list Haifux@haifux.org http://hamakor.org.il/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/haifux
