430734 - New mail notifier in taskbar appears when no new mail

Status: RESOLVED INCOMPLETE

(Thunderbird :: Mail Window Front End, defect)

Description

[cd]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.8.1.14) Gecko/20080404 Firefox/2.0.0.14
Build Identifier: Thunderbird/version 2.0.0.12 (20080213)

The Envelope with an arrow pointing into it that is supposed to notify me that I have new messages needlessly appears periodically (Perhaps every time thunderbird checks the server for new mail?).  Hovering mouse over icon says "Local folders has 1 new message."  Upon checking folders, no new messages in any folder.  Icon disappears when I click on a folder that is not currently open in the top pane. 


Occured after update to Thunderbird 2, and installing Lightning.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:

2.
3.



default theme.  
tried restarting thunderbird, OS.  Reinstalled thunderbird.
server settings: "check for new messages every __ minutes"

Comment 1

[Rod Pederson]

Have the same problem with Thunderbird 2.0.0.16.  New mail icon appears in task bar whenever mail is checked, even when there is no new email.  Clears when I switch to another inbox folder.

Comment 2

[John Silvestri]

Appears to be a dupe of bug 222068.

Comment 3

[Mike Cowperthwaite]

More like a dupe of bug 253341.

Comment 4

[Mike Cowperthwaite]

Reporter (cd): since you're getting notification for mail in "Local folders," I'm presuming your account is POP (as opposed to IMAP).  Check your setting in
  Tools | Account setting | <account> | Server Settings:
    [] Automatically download new messages

If this is unchecked, try checking it and see if the problem goes away.

If it is checked, then the other questions are: Do you have multiple mail accounts?  Are you using message filters to file incoming mail?  

Comment 5

[Craig Stevens]

I have the same problem on version 2.0.0.17 (20080914)

My two accounts are both POP.

Both accounts are set to automatically download new messages.

Yes I have two email accounts.

Yes I am using filters to file "some" incoming mail.

Comment 6

[[:Aureliano Buendía]]

Reporter could be a dupe of bug #481284?

Comment 7

[Wayne Mery (:wsmwk)]

cd, Craig, et al,

if comment 6 is not applicable, then please retest this when version 3 comes out, and update the bug.

Comment 8

[Joshua Cranmer [:jcranmer]]

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