603698 - Junk mail shouldn't give notification

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 272125

(Thunderbird :: Mail Window Front End, defect)

Description

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User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9.2.10) Gecko/20100914 NET_mmhpset
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9.2.9) Gecko/20100915 Lightning/1.0b2 Thunderbird/3.1.4

TB is running in the background or under my current app.  I am focusing on the current app and a junk mail arrives.  I have a notification popup for a few seconds saying that I have mail and the envelope icon is open in the task bar.  So I go to TB and see it is junk.


Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1.receive a junk mail
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Actual Results:  
receive notification of new mail

Expected Results:  

TB does a pretty good of marking the junk mail, so why bother me with a notification?  I am focusing on another task and it interrupts my train of thought.  I think it should only notify for non-junk.

One can argue the usability issues here, yes, you did get a mail.  But no, it's been marked as not an important one.

One might put this non-notification as a default for TB.  Or it might be a checkbox in the prefs, but I do find the behavior of telling me about junk mail to be annoying.