273695 - No notification on new news (i.e. NNTP) items

Status: RESOLVED EXPIRED

(Thunderbird :: General, enhancement)

Description

[Christophe Porteneuve]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; fr-FR; rv:1.7.5) Gecko/20041108 Firefox/1.0
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; fr-FR; rv:1.7.5) Gecko/20041108 Firefox/1.0

On a per-account basis (at least; per-group seems a bit too fine-grained to me),
I'd like to be able to ask TB to notify me when new messages appear in an NNTP
account, like it does when I get new e-mails.

Some of the NNTP accounts I get are intranet-only, therefore have limited
traffic, and are of special importance to me, too. I'd like to be able to react
swiftly to posts in there. On the other hand, when I use my ISP's news server
and world-wide groups, I would like *not* to get notified whenever someone
posts. Hence the per-account aspect.

Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:




There's a very similar request for RSS feeds (bug #261841), and most of what
they suggest is valid here too. Although while per-feed notification settings is
pretty useful (some feeds I want to check once a day, others every 10 minutes),
it seems less necessary for newsgroups.

Still, maybe the same notification framework could be used for both features,
NNTP and RSS...

Comment 1

[David :Bienvenu]

did you go into the server properties of your news server and set the "check for
new messages every XX seconds" setting? Or is that you want the new mail icon to
appear in the system tray when there's new news postings?

Comment 2

[Christophe Porteneuve]

I do get periodical refresh, of course. What I don't have is the notification at
the system tray. Ideally, it would be a different icon, BTW. Same goes for RSS :-)

Comment 3

[Gervase Markham [:gerv]]

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