270722 - "Check this folder..." vs. new mail notification

Status: RESOLVED EXPIRED

(Thunderbird :: General, defect)

Description

[Alex Staubo]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7.5) Gecko/20041109 Firefox/1.0 (MOOX M3)
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7.5) Gecko/20041109 Firefox/1.0 (MOOX M3)

Every folder has a setting "Check this folder for new messages". What if you
always want to know about messages for all folders? I do, and it would be a
headache to enable this option for all folders.

More importantly, doing this completely disrupts the new mail notification
popup. I have a bunch of folders for mailing lists and feeds, automatically
routed into the folders on the server end using maildrop.

I certainly don't want a popup whenever these folders receive new mail. Mail
trickles into these folders by the hundreds, and I don't want a popup saying "53
new messages received" every minute.

I only want the notification popup for mail specifically addressed to me, ie.
that which ends up in my inbox.

Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
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Comment 1

[Denny Schierz]

Same problem here, i have also a lot of folders for mailinglists and isn't 
nice to enable this option for all 20 folders. A default checkbox in the 
account settings like: "[x] Check for new messages in all subscribed folders" 
would be very helpfull. 

Comment 2

[Gervase Markham [:gerv]]

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[Gervase Markham [:gerv]]

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