How to disable the new mail pop-up notification

david foster

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Apr 5, 2011, 3:26:09 PM4/5/11

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Is it possible to completely disable the new mail notification pop-up in
Thunderbird (v3.1.9)? I have a new user who has been a die-hard Outlook
user and when it finally broke, I upgraded her to Thunderbird.

Her one major complaint is the pop-up notifier - she says it's
distracting and that the little envelope icon in the system tray is more
than enough for her.

If we could turn this off, we might have a good convert here!

Thanks,

David

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Bruce Hagen

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Apr 5, 2011, 3:40:51 PM4/5/11

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Tools | Options | General. Show An Alert and Play A Sound are both there
and can be unchecked.
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~Bruce Hagen

Al Lawrence

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Apr 5, 2011, 3:41:12 PM4/5/11

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david foster said the following on 4/5/2011 3:26 PM:

> Is it possible to completely disable the new mail notification pop-up in
> Thunderbird (v3.1.9)? I have a new user who has been a die-hard Outlook
> user and when it finally broke, I upgraded her to Thunderbird.
>
> Her one major complaint is the pop-up notifier - she says it's
> distracting and that the little envelope icon in the system tray is more
> than enough for her.
>
>

Try

Tools> Options> When New Message Arrive> uncheck Show an Alert

David Pyles

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Apr 5, 2011, 3:43:12 PM4/5/11

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Tools > Options > General button: Un-select "Show an alert" should do it.
Dave Pyles

david foster

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Apr 5, 2011, 4:30:46 PM4/5/11

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Thank you all -- I feel like such a doofus! I've been using Thunderbird
for eons and never even contemplated turning this off.. and now I get
caught out not looking at the options!

Al Lawrence

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Apr 5, 2011, 6:27:37 PM4/5/11

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david foster said the following on 4/5/2011 4:30 PM:

Your not alone. We ALL overlook things that are in 'plain sight' :-)
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Greywolf

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Apr 6, 2011, 9:48:03 AM4/6/11

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On 05/04/2011 6:27 PM, Al Lawrence wrote:
>
>
> david foster said the following on 4/5/2011 4:30 PM:

[...]

>> Thank you all -- I feel like such a doofus! I've been using Thunderbird
>> for eons and never even contemplated turning this off.. and now I get
>> caught out not looking at the options!
>>
>> David
>>
> Your not alone. We ALL overlook things that are in 'plain sight' :-)

Which is why people who claim they didn't see the Stop sign are honestly
telling like it was.

Wolf K.

david foster

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Apr 7, 2011, 10:53:27 AM4/7/11

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Woods for the trees, and all that? :) AT least now my ex-Outlook user
is settling in to TB better.. Outlook broke on her - imagine that :)

andrew...@gmail.com

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Mar 7, 2013, 7:20:15 AM3/7/13

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David Pyles於 2011年4月6日星期三UTC+8上午3時43分12秒寫道：

My version of thunderbird 17.0.3 doesn't have "Tools | Options | General. In this version of thunderbird it is "preference configuration | preference configuration | General.

andrew...@gmail.com

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Mar 7, 2013, 7:24:50 AM3/7/13

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andrew...@gmail.com於 2013年3月7日星期四UTC+8下午8時20分15秒寫道：

My version of thunderbird 17.0.3 doesn't have "Tools | Options | General. In this version of thunderbird it is "3 line button | preference configuration | preference configuration | General.".
How strange that the programmers would decide to have a double "preference configuration", or perhaps people who major in computers are that interested in English.

Andrew Comly

Keith Nuttle

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Mar 7, 2013, 8:17:19 AM3/7/13

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In my version of TB 17.0.3 for Windows it is there

Mike Easter

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Mar 7, 2013, 9:39:18 AM3/7/13

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andrew...@gmail.com wrote:
User-Agent: G2/1.0
Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable

> My version of thunderbird 17.0.3 doesn't have "Tools | Options |
> General. In this version of thunderbird it is "preference
> configuration | preference configuration | General.

You are not posting your message to this newsgroup with Tb's news
client, but instead you are using googlegroups, which defaults to the
new interface which creates message formatting problems, and which posts
here with its own brand of quoted printable.

If you would create a news account in Tb on the news.mozilla.org server
to read and post to the moz support groups, your message formatting
would be more compatible with others reading and posting with Tb.
Alternatively, just pushing GG back to its old interface would help with
the formatting.

GG's interface has a great number of disadvantages compared to reading
with a news client. Once you graduate from GG to a newsreader using an
nntp news server, you will be much happier.

--
Mike Easter

Miles

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Mar 7, 2013, 9:41:56 AM3/7/13

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* david foster wrote, On 06-Apr-11 03:30:

It's always been in my face -- at least for several versions -- It is
constantly popping up blocking what I'm trying to read. Thanks Bruce
and others for explaining this as I didn't see it either in options!
It's now off for good. Wonder how it got there, was it added with
one of the versions, and defaulted to be on or did one of the updates
simply change it from being off to on?
Miles

Ken Whiton

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Mar 7, 2013, 4:24:44 PM3/7/13

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*-* On Thu, 7 Mar 2013, at 04:24:50 -0800 (PST),
*-* In Article <b0baeda2-7b76-4021...@googlegroups.com>,
*-* andrew...@gmail.com wrote
*-* About Re: How to disable the new mail pop-up notification

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> andrew...@gmail.com於 2013年3月7日星期四UTC+8下午8時20分15秒寫道：
>> David Pyles於 2011年4月6日星期三UTC+8上午3時43分12秒寫道：
>>> david foster wrote:
>>>> Is it possible to completely disable the new mail notification
>>>> pop-up in Thunderbird (v3.1.9)? I have a new user who has been a
>>>> die-hard Outlook user and when it finally broke, I upgraded her
>>>> to Thunderbird.

>>>> Her one major complaint is the pop-up notifier - she says it's
>>>> distracting and that the little envelope icon in the system tray
>>>> is more than enough for her.

>>>> If we could turn this off, we might have a good convert here!

>>> Tools > Options > General button: Un-select "Show an alert"
>>> should do it.

What platform are you on? "Tools --> Options" in Windows
translates to "Edit --> Preferences" in Linux and "Thunderbird -->
Preferences" on Mac.

> How strange that the programmers would decide to have a double
> "preference configuration", or perhaps people who major in computers
> are that interested in English.

Considering that you're posting from Taiwan, are you using an
English-language version of TB or a non-English-language version? If
it's a non-English-language version it might be a translation issue.
If it's an English-language version I have no idea.

Ken Whiton
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roma....@gmail.com

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Jun 5, 2013, 12:45:25 PM6/5/13

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Hi! I'm running Thunderbird v6.0 on a workstation, and when
I click on "Tools", there is no "Option" button. Any recommendations?

Thanks!
Roma

>
> Try
>
> Tools> Options> When New Message Arrive> uncheck Show an Alert

roma....@gmail.com

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Jun 5, 2013, 2:24:45 PM6/5/13

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Got the answer:

1- In T-Bird pull down Edit menu -> Preferences
2- Deselect the box under When new messages arrive: "Show an alert"

gerr...@gmail.com

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May 7, 2014, 2:38:13 AM5/7/14

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Thanks to Bruce Hagen and all. Exactly what I wanted and no trouble finding it!
Gerry