1964362 - [macOS] Notifications for reminders but not new mail

Status: RESOLVED FIXED

(Thunderbird :: Preferences, enhancement)

Description

[Jan]

User Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10.15; rv:139.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/139.0

Steps to reproduce:

If you go into system settings and turn on notifications, you get them for new emails and for reminders, which is what would be expected.
But there is no way to turn them off for emails specifically. I can turn off parts (like subject, sender, etc) and change the message actions since the latest version.

Actual results:

Notifications are all or nothing.

Expected results:

I would like to be able to only receive notifications for reminders and turn them off for emails (but keep the sound). Basically, TB should behave like notifications are turned off from system settings, unless it's a reminder.

There is a vaguely related request: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1851770, but I'd love to not only be able to change the type, but the occurrence in total.

Comment 1

[Magnus Melin [:mkmelin]]

For other OS's in the settings you just untick this:

When new messages arrive:
[ x ] Show an alert
https://searchfox.org/comm-central/rev/a4785f2c62c6d65e50725f63c321e7bf78b61f53/mail/components/preferences/general.inc.xhtml#442

Can you set mail.biff.show_alert and see if it works?

Comment 2

[Jan]

(In reply to Magnus Melin [:mkmelin] from comment #1)

For other OS's in the settings you just untick this:

When new messages arrive:
[ x ] Show an alert
https://searchfox.org/comm-central/rev/a4785f2c62c6d65e50725f63c321e7bf78b61f53/mail/components/preferences/general.inc.xhtml#442

Can you set mail.biff.show_alert and see if it works?

This suppresses the mail alert as expected, thanks! However, I still don't receive (system) notifications for reminders, but that seems to be unrelated to this. Apparently, reminders are currently not sent as system notifications.

To make this ticket not completely useless, I'd like to request a toggle be added to the settings page so you don't have to use the config editor. :)

Comment 3

[Magnus Melin [:mkmelin]]

Attachment: Bug 1964362 - Expose mail.biff.show_alert on macOS. r=#thunderbird-reviewers

We're using system notifications for more now, so probably not a good idea to advice someone to disable them (app-wide).
The notice is also wrong it seems. mail.biff.play_sound is exposed a bit down.
System notifications may have their own sound, indepenently, I suppose... but this notice is confusing.

Comment 4

[Pulsebot]

Pushed by [e-mail]:
https://hg.mozilla.org/comm-central/rev/5ac6940bb52d
Expose mail.biff.show_alert on macOS.r=arschmitz

Comment 5

[Alex Schmitz]

Attachment: Bug 1964362 - Follow-up: add mail.biff.show_alert when on mac os now that its exposed. r=mkmelin,#thunderbird-reviewers

Comment 6

[Pulsebot]

Pushed by [e-mail]:
https://hg.mozilla.org/comm-central/rev/a3c0bd9c9de9
Follow-up: add mail.biff.show_alert when on mac os now that its exposed.r=mkmelin

Comment 7

[Pulsebot]

Pushed by [e-mail]:
https://hg.mozilla.org/comm-central/rev/dfabf49a62d4
Follow-up2: don't test for sound type on Mac (as it's not exposed in UI). rs=bustage-fix

Comment 8

[Pulsebot]

Pushed by [e-mail]:
https://hg.mozilla.org/comm-central/rev/9f57fa846790
Follow-up3: really don't test for sound type on Mac. rs=bustage-fix DONTBUILD