291113 - 'show an alert' setting doesn't seem to work

Status: RESOLVED INCOMPLETE

(Thunderbird :: General, defect)

Description

[Danny Bloemendaal]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; PPC Mac OS X Mach-O; en-US; rv:1.7.6) Gecko/20050225 Firefox/1.0.1
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; PPC Mac OS X Mach-O; en-US; rv:1.7.6) Gecko/20050225 Firefox/1.0.1

I've checked the 'Show an alert' option in one of the latest builds (20050412)
and  no popup or whatsoever is shown when a new mail arrives. I only hear the sound.

Reproducible: Always

Comment 1

[Danny Bloemendaal]

Please fix this problem. The problem still exists in 1.5beta1

Comment 2

[Matjaz]

This has always worked for me, also with the latest build 1.5 Beta 1 (20050915).

Comment 3

[Danny Bloemendaal]

(In reply to comment #2)
> This has always worked for me, also with the latest build 1.5 Beta 1 (20050915).

On OsX?
If so, where does the notification get's displayed? I'm really positive that it
is not displayed here.

Comment 4

[Matjaz]

Ooops, sorry, missed OS info.

Comment 5

[Danny Bloemendaal]

C'mon guys. Please fix this!

Comment 6

[Ray Booysen]

Unless you have some insight regarding the bug or are providing development help, please don't create unneccesary bugspam.

Moving back to normal.

Comment 7

[Danny Bloemendaal]

Ok, well, I'm more than happy to help dig this thing but I'm not a (mozilla) developer. Other than that I can do/try whatever it takes to help solve this.

Shouldn't there be an advanced config setting for 'show an alert'?
I can see entries for alerts.height/slideincrement(time)/totalOpenTime. Nothing else.

I'm running Tiger 10.4.3 and Thunderbird 1.5rc1. The sounds do play though.

Needless to say I would really want this non-working feature to finally work. For me this would normally be a reason not to use Thunderbird if it weren't so that the Smart Folders in Mail.app suck so much.

Comment 8

[tonyalbert]

Nothing happens when I get new mail. I have all of the bells and whistles clicked, but to no avail.

Comment 9

[Gary Kwong [:gkw] [:nth10sd] (NOT official MoCo now)]

Reporter, does the issue still occur with the latest supported 2.0.0.x / Shredder trunk nightlies?

(1.5.0.x is now end-of-life and the latest supported Thunderbird version 2 is 2.0.0.16)

Comment 10

[Joshua Cranmer [:jcranmer]]

RESO INCO per lack of response to the last question. If you feel this change was made in error, please respond to this bug with your reasons why.