87124 - Need new mail notification flag

Status: VERIFIED DUPLICATE of bug 18729

(SeaMonkey :: MailNews: Message Display, defect)

Description

[susie wyshak]

From Bugzilla Helper:
User-Agent: Mozilla/4.7 [en] (WinNT; U)
BuildID:    

Need to bring back the 

Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
Send mail to 6.1 user with browser open but without Mail being open

Actual Results:  Mail arrives but you don't know it till you go to your inbox.

Expected Results:  4.x users would expect to see a clickable icon / flag appear 
showing that mail has arrived, which they can click to open their INbox.


This is a standard mail package feature that especially for ISPs will result in 
tech support calls from users who think their mail isn't arriving.

Comment 1

[Jacek Piskozub]

This is an RFE (RequCinfirming. Leaving severity as normal as this is 4xp, not RFE.

I'm not sure about the Platform/OS. Wasn't the email notyfier a Windows-only
feature of NC4.*?

Comment 2

[Jacek Piskozub]

Bugzilla made me sound like an idiot, who contradicts himself 100%. Sorry about
that. I changed my mind and actually deleted the original text. Please ignore
the first sentence of my last comment. Netscape 4 parity bugs are not RFEs. Full
stop.

Comment 3

[Rob Jaworski]

> Wasn't the email notyfier a Windows-only
> feature of NC4.*?

If I recall, you would see this on the Mac too in 4.x (assuming you were logged
into the mail server in that session).  It would cause the application-picker
menu (far right of the menu bar) blink annoyingly indicating you have mail (if
you were in a different app).  There was a icon on the tool/taskbar within
Communicator windows that would change too.  This indicative icon was also
featured on unix.

Comment 4

[scottputterman]

moving to future milestone.

Comment 5

[:deanis74]

There are specific bugs open for new mail notification on all platforms.  
Marking this a dupe of the Windows bug.

Windows: bug 18729
Mac: bug 18730
Linux: bug 18731 (KDE)
       bug 18732 (Gnome)


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

Comment 6

[Sheela Ravindran]

verified as dup