Re: Thunderbird notification daemon

[Blues Renegade]

Chris, There are notification programs/services for GNOME and KDE desktop environments running under MIT's X server and the Linux kernel. Even on an old Pentium III machine w/only 386 MB of RAM--thanks to Linux--I'm able to run TB, Firefox, OpenOffice, and anything else I want... all at the same time, with very good performance. I have 3 OSes on that PC spread over 2-80GB Western Digital hard drives: 1) CentOS 4.6 (CentOS is an open source version of Red Hat Advanced Enterprise Server); 2) Windows 98; and 3) Windows XP Professional (upgraded from Windows 2000 Professional). The PC I'm running TB on right now is a Pentium 4 w/1-GB RAM, 1-80 GB SATA HD, and I'm running Ubuntu Desktop 9.04 (Jaunty Jackalope). This is my LAMP server for development work. John Chris Clifton wrote: I was puzzled about the question. What Angelina seems to be asking for is a notification program that will alert her to new messages without running Thunderbird. Why? As you say, Thunderbird can run minimized, and automatically check for new mails at any interval you specify. When a new mail arrives a chime sounds and an envelope icon appears in the notification area of the system tray (Windows, I don't know what Mac or Linux systems do).What more could a separate program or daemon do? What would the user gain by using such a daemon? Blues Renegade wrote: Angelina, What your asking for is already built-in to Thunderbird. 1. Run Thunderbird 2. Select the Edit menu, Account Settings..., select Server Settings and the rest is self-explanatory. Depending on your operating system and Desktop Environment, there are notification programs available. What I do is leave TB running and minimize it. With TB running and the above mentioned server settings, you have your solution. ;) John Angelina wrote: Hi! Is there any way to enable some sort of "Thunderbird daemon"? I'm talking about a little icon to lay in the notification area, and look for new e-mail frequently. I have to start Thunderbird to check for new e-mails, but I want it to run at startup, and frequently check for e-mails without the main window being open. Now I have to keep Thunderbird open (minimized) if I want it to check for new e-mails automatically. As soon as I close it, I get no notification about new e-mails. Does anyone know? Thanks! --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Thunderbird Webmail Extension" group. To post to this group, send email to thunderbird-webmail-extension@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to thunderbird-webmail-extension+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/thunderbird-webmail-extension?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---