242200 - New mail Biff should show for each account that has new messages

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 145982

(Thunderbird :: Mail Window Front End, defect)

Description

[Tommy Becker]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.6) Gecko/20040206 Firefox/0.8
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.6) Gecko/20040206 Firefox/0.8

The new mail biff only seems to show for the last account TB checks that
actually has new mail.  I'm guessing this is because each subsequent biff is
obscuring the prior one.  I've seen other apps (the latest AIM for one) that
allow biffs to "stack" up when more than one pop up at a time.  Perhaps that
could be implemented for TB?

Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
1.Configure TB to check all accounts for new mail on startup
2.Start TB when more than 1 account has new mail
3.

Actual Results:  
Only the biff for the last account checked for new mail shows.

Expected Results:  
Biffs should "stack" up such that all are visible.

Comment 1

[Tommy Becker]

I should note that I run TB on Win XP, which is also where I have seen the biff
"stacking" implemented.

Comment 2

[Mike Cowperthwaite]

Tommy Becker: If I understand this bug correctly, you want the pop-up alert 
window to show the new mail status for more than one account -- correct?

What you're actually seeing is an alert for the *first* account that finishes 
receiving mail.  Once an alert has been shown, no further new alerts are shown 
until that alert has been cleared.  See bug 210148.

In addition, the tooltip displayed when hovering over the icon does not show 
information for all accounts (bug 209752) and does not update when newer mail 
arrives in an already-notified account (bug 138095).

Comment 3

[Mike Cowperthwaite]

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 145982 ***