273838 - No option to prevent unread message notification on XP Welcome screen

Status: RESOLVED EXPIRED

(Thunderbird :: Preferences, enhancement)

Description

[Bill Sullivan]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7.5) Gecko/20041107 Firefox/1.0
Build Identifier: Mozilla Thunderbird Version1.0 (20041206)   also installed:Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7.5) Gecko/20041107 Firefox/1.0

In the dark times before Thunderbird, I had manually set the registry value
MessageExpiryDays to zero in order to not have to look at a summary of new and
unread Outlook messages on the Welcome screen every time I logon to Windows XP.
   When I installed Thunderbird, the value was removed and the new and unread
message status re-appeared.  There is no setting under Tools>Options... to
manage this registry entry.  I think it should be added with the default set to
mimic display status prior to install.  The value can be found under the
following subkey:
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\UnreadMail\

Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
1. Uninstall Thunderbird
2. Set MessageExpiryDays DWord value to zero under
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\UnreadMail\
3. Confirm message status off on XP Welcome screen
4. Re-install Thunderbird
Actual Results:  
Email message status will re-appear on the XP Welcome screen. 

Expected Results:  
Install should check for presence of registry settings that affect display of
message status on XP Welcome screen and leave them unchanged while adding
necessary reg entries for Thunderbird.  In addition, Tools>Options... should
contain a control to manage the display of email status on the Welcome screen
for the current user.

Comment 1

[John G Innes]

Text associated with one Windows XP Home account login icon shows 4 unread
messages that never showup in Thunderbird. Unusual case was caused when the
Thunderbird mail account setup was mistyped as *@centurytel.com instead of
*@centurytel.net. This was corrected quickly, and 2 messages were bounced back
to the senders who forwarded them again with the correct address. 

Apparently 4 more messages were incorrectly sent with the *.com suffix instead
of *.net. CenturyTel swears the messages are no longer in their system, but the
notice still appears at the XP login icon. A right-click on the notice
identifies the 4 messages to have the proper ID except the ISP is identified
incorrectly as *centurytel.com

CenturyTel says it is a Windows problem, Toshiba says it is a CenturyTel
problem. We would be happy just to be able to clear [erase] the notice.

Comment 2

[Gervase Markham [:gerv]]

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Comment 3

[Gervase Markham [:gerv]]

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