280466 - Ability to "turn off" notification for some folders

Status: RESOLVED INVALID

(Thunderbird :: Mail Window Front End, enhancement)

Description

[Kelly]

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/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7.5) Gecko/20041107 Firefox/1.0

Enhancement request: There are some folders, especially for mailing lists, for
which I'd rather not recieve a new mail notification, since they receive
hundreds of messages a day. It would be great if you could perhaps right-click a
folder to "turn off" mail notification, so that messages filtered into that
folder would not generate a new mail notification message.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Subscribe to a busy mailing list
2. set up a filter to shuffle everythign from that list into a sub folder
3. watch the new mail notification pop up every few minutes, and be horribly
disappointed that it's not a long lost friend e-mailing you to go out for beers
next week, just someone on the Anarchist's mailing list whining about the
government.

Actual Results:  
I became sad.

Expected Results:  
not gotten my hopes up by telling me I have new mail.

Comment 1

[Mike Cowperthwaite]

Right-click on an IMAP folder, select Properties.  There is an option:
  [] Check this folder for new messages

If you turn this off, you won't get notifications for the folder.

If this solves your problem, please mark this bug:  Resolved | Invalid


Note: The folders *will* bold/update the unread count if: you leave IDLE mode on 
(Account Settings | Server Settings | Advanced | IMAP) *and* there is activity 
on the folder at least once every half-hour -- this could be a manual check of 
the folder, or (I think) mail arriving in the folder.  But if you're expecting 
loads of messages in the folder, then you should just presume there's new mail 
in the folder and not rely on the bolding.

Comment 2

[Mike Cowperthwaite]

See also bug 201420.

Comment 3

[Mike Cowperthwaite]

No response from reporter; =>Invalid