793248 - New mail alerts delivery should be customizable (at least) by folder

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 224573

(Thunderbird :: Message Reader UI, defect)

Description

[tlhackque]

I was working with TB open, when I got a spate of popup-beep alerts for New Mail.

Problem is, the new mail in question was delivered (directly by Procmail as directed by SpamAssassin) to the "dead sure it's junk mail" folder.  Oops!

I should be able to specify which folders cause alerts, and which ones don't.

In this case, Spamassassin/Procmail on my e-mail host delivered to my "almost certainly spam" folder.  Yet Thunderbird, not knowing better, beeped and waved.

What I would like is a preference setting - either folders to alert on, or folders NOT to alert on - to control when TB alerts.

It could be under folder properties, like "Include messages from this folder in Global Search results".  Or under Options->General->When a new message arrives -> Customize.

Under Outlook, no alerts are generated for IMAP incoming messages, unless a custom rule is written to generate them.  That's more a technical limitation than a feature, but I do miss the control.

With the rule-based approach, I could inhibit alerts for mailing list traffic that I read once a day, but ensure that I was alerted when new mail arrived from a family member.   Something like that would be idea - but if it were simply binary on which folder(s) alert, the server's local delivery agent could help.

A trivial simple option: Don't alert unless the message delivered to INBOX.  That's the bare minimum to make me happy - at least on this issue.

Thanks for your consideration!!

Comment 1

[Matthias Versen [:Matti]]

You should be able to disable the checking for new messages for each IMAP folder. That should help with the SPAM folder alerts.