329227 - Decouple new mail notification from getting new messages

Status: RESOLVED INCOMPLETE

(Thunderbird :: Mail Window Front End, enhancement)

Description

[Bart Samwel]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.8.0.1) Gecko/20060111 Firefox/1.5.0.1
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.8.0.1) Gecko/20060111 Firefox/1.5.0.1

It would be a good thing to decouple new mail notification from actually checking for new mail and downloading the headers. I have lots of mailing lists for which I don't want to be notified when there is new mail, but when I check my mail because I got a personal e-mail I want to *see* how many mails there are in there. So I want do enable "Check for new messages", but I *don't* want to get a new mail notification for every LKML messages that comes in. Note that I use an IMAP server, and I do my mail sorting for mailing lists server-side, so I have a situation in which Thunderbird won't actually notice the messages at all if I don't enable "Check for new messages".

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:

Comment 1

[zug_treno]

(In reply to comment #0)
> So I want do enable "Check for new messages", but I *don't* want
> to get a new mail notification for every LKML messages that comes in.

Related to Suite bug 224573?

Comment 2

[Bart Samwel]

In a way it's related to suite bug 224573 (also occurs in thunderbird BTW), but that's for stuff that thunderbird puts into folders *itself*, it's basically a real bug. What I need is a "don't notify" flag, not a "don't notify if you've been so stupid that you've forgotten that the user just put this message here herself". :-)

Comment 3

[Wayne Mery (:wsmwk)]

i'm shocked there are no duplicates to this - which means either people aren't finding this bug, or they are duping to some other bug.

an imperfect list to choose from ... https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/buglist.cgi?type1-0-0=anywordssubstr&type3-0-0=nowordssubstr&short_desc=new%20&field0-0-0=short_desc&bug_severity=enhancement&value3-0-0=count%20%20green%20total%20nntp%20expand%20scroll%20mark&value2-0-0=pick%20select%20choose%20specific%20which%20limit&field2-0-0=longdesc&resolution=---&resolution=WONTFIX&field3-0-0=short_desc&type2-0-0=anywordssubstr&query_format=advanced&value1-0-0=get%20folder&short_desc_type=allwordssubstr&type0-0-0=anywordssubstr&value0-0-0=mail%20messages&field1-0-0=short_desc&product=MailNews%20Core&product=Thunderbird

Comment 4

[Wayne Mery (:wsmwk)]

comment 0 is somewhat unclear to me. For example, does reporter mean alerts should happen only if *Inbox* has new mail?
We have many notification bugs to cover many situations (including my speculation above), so I propose to close this unless we have clarification from the reporter.

Comment 5

[Phoenix]

Resolved per whiteboard