190835 - RFE: Check for new messages in the background

Status: VERIFIED DUPLICATE of bug 18729

(SeaMonkey :: MailNews: Message Display, enhancement)

Description

[Ian Brandt]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.3b) Gecko/20030125
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.3b) Gecko/20030125

I seem to remember that old Communictor had a taskbar tray utility that would
run in the background and check for new messages on your accounts.  Since it
seems that Mozilla has an opiton to remain loaded in the background it would be
nice if this process could check for new messages as well.  That way the Mail &
News window would not have to remain open all the time.  

This might also serve as another selling point for the "Keep mozilla in memory
to to improve startup performance" option.  I could imagine some old time power
users cringing at the thought of something "consuming resources when not in
use".  If the process was checking for mail that might be "okay".  ;)

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:

Comment 1

[Matthias Versen [:Matti]]

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 18729 ***

Comment 2

[Stephen Donner [:stephend] Not actively reading bugmail]

Verified dup