79090 - mailer should be able to go to tray

Status: VERIFIED DUPLICATE of bug 18729

(SeaMonkey :: General, enhancement)

Description

[Harald Glatt]

From Bugzilla Helper:
User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:0.9+) Gecko/20010505
BuildID:    2001050520

it would be cool if the mailer would be able to sit in the windows tray, so you
could be able to have it in background to have it check for mails all the time
and then inform you with a sound or an animated icon or something

Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
1. no steps

Comment 1

[Håkan Waara]

You can do that already. Go to your account prefs, "Edit > Mail/News Account
Settings...", then click on your account's Server Settings and there you have
options for enabling automatic checking and download of your email.

If you also want to hear a sound every time there is new email available, go to
Preferences > Mail and Newsgroups and click the checkbox there.

Marking INVALID as all the suggested features are already implemented.

Comment 2

[Harald Glatt]

the tray feature isn't already implemented

Comment 3

[Håkan Waara]

The `tray feature'? You can minimize the mailnews window and have it check for
new email, download it, and play a sound.  What more do you want?

Still, I think this is INVALID. CC stephend for verification.

Comment 4

[Harald Glatt]

nop, it blocks room in your task bar, it would just be more handy if it could 
go to tray!

Comment 5

[Håkan Waara]

Oh. I see what you mean. Over to User Interface Design component and cc mailnews
UI people.

Comment 6

[Håkan Waara]

I don't like this at all. Also, it's kind of hard to implement OS specific stuff
like this - there's no tray in MacOS, BeOS, OS/2 or Linux for example.

Comment 7

[Harald Glatt]

oops i've had the summary information in the url field ;)
changed that..

Comment 8

[Harald Glatt]

yeah you're right bout this, but i still think it would be nice thing for 
windows users

Comment 9

[Matthew T (active 1999-2002)]

That's why we have the `pp' keyword, Håkan.

Yes, we should show new mail in the system tray on Windows. The fact that we 
don't do this is a known bug.

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 18729 ***

Comment 10

[Zach Lipton [:zach]]

dangit! why do I need a comment to verify a bug!