Thunderbird

[Dirk Freitag]

On 08/13/2010 03:04 AM, Thomas Yao wrote:
> On Fri, Aug 13, 2010 at 2:42 PM, Basil Chupin<blchupin at iinet.net.au>  wrote:
>> On 11/08/2010 06:59, Preston Hagar wrote:
>>> On Tue, Aug 10, 2010 at 8:39 AM, Kaushal Shriyan
>>> <kaushalshriyan at gmail.com>    wrote:
>>>
>>>> Hi,
>>>>
>>>> Are there good notifiers for thunderbird on Ubuntu Linux 10.04
>>>> desktop,I mean if i click on it i am able to open the message ?
>>>>
>>>> Thanks
>>>>
>>>> Kaushal
>>>>
>>>>
>>> I have searched long and hard for this since my upgrade to Lucid
>>> (10.04) and subsequent upgrade to Thunderbird 3.  I am right now using
>>> a combination of FireTray:
>>>
>>> https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/thunderbird/addon/4868/
>>>
>>> and Libnotify Popups:
>>>
>>> https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/thunderbird/addon/11530/
>>>
>>
>> [pruned]
>>
>> Thank you for pointing out the above 2 extensions and their pros/cons.
>>
>> But I have to ask - simply out of curiosity - why would one need to have
>> an addon installed for this purpose when it only takes a simple click on
>> a desktop icon where Thunderbird is running to see if TB has received
>> new mail for you? Obviously there must be at least one reason otherwise
>> the addon would not have been written, nor maintained, but what is that
>> reason?
>>
>> Is it because by having this addon you can read the mail while you are
>> using a different application on a different Desktop? If so, doesn't
>> this overwrite the screen with TB mail?
>>
>> BC
>>
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>>
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>
> Just add an add-on called "minimizetoTray plus" and it works well
>

Just did this for my netbook to get back into the ubuntu email list. 
minimize to tray is nice.