315387 - New Mail Alert not working in Thunderbird1.5RC1

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 332160

(Thunderbird :: General, defect)

Description

[pavimans]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.7.12) Gecko/20050920 Firefox/1.0.7
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.7.12) Gecko/20050920 Firefox/1.0.7

I installed Thunderbird1.5RC1 on RH8 Linux, the new message alert, popup or sound, none of them are working. Earlier I had 1.0.7 version in which the sound alert was  working, but after upgrading to 1.5RC1 none of the alerts is working.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. From Thunderbird|Edit|Preferences
2. Select popup & sound
3.

Actual Results:  
No sound or popup windows appears when a new mail arrives.

Expected Results:  
Should popup a new mail alert and play sound.

Comment 1

[Michael Cronenworth]

I can also confirm this with 1.5.0.4 since I can only get the sound to work. I would love to see a visual alert that Windows users see.

Comment 2

[Mark Barrett]

This bug is affecting me too. I get no visual, nor aural notification and I'm using 1.5.0.5.

I've been using 1.5 since it's release and I didn't even realize 1.5 had mail notifications on Linux until I went looking for an extension.

There could be quite a few people affected by this, simply turning it off and on again in Edit -> preferences doesn't work.

Comment 3

[Mark Barrett]

Ok, it seems bug 332160 is being worked on for 2.0 that fixes this.
The alert UI is already present from the Windows version

Comment 4

[Mike Cowperthwaite]

Check this feature out in the beta release of TB 2.0.

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 332160 ***