[SOLVED] "New message" alert in Thunderbird

[charles17]

Does someone have mail-client/thunderbird-3.1.6 with "New message" alert working??
Mine doesn't play sounds nor does it show a popup notification

Is there some unknown dependency for showing/playing notification?

[audiodef]

I don't remember which one I have, but there is more than one message notification plugin for Thunderbird. The one I would have preferred didn't work so I just tried different ones until one worked. What worked for me was one that simply flashes the Thunderbird taskbar icon.

In other words, try more than one. You just want to not have to actually check Thunderbird all the time, right?
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[paulj]

Which window manager are you using? I have a popup in mine, but I didn't configure anything to get it. The popup is not the standard kde notification method though, even though I am using kde.

[charles17]

@audiodef

[paulj]

Here is the General settings for my installation of thunderbird: Screenshot

I haven't installed any add-ins to manage alerts, and the options selected in "Customise" are the same as yours.

I have had a look through the other settings etc, and can't see anything else which might cause this feature not to work.

I haven't got fluxbox installed, but I do have openbox - I'll try in there to see if there is a difference.

Have you tried running thunderbird from a terminal to see what messages are posted while the program is running?

Is your system currently in a consistent state? Have you run revdep-rebuild recently? In my experience these sorts of issues are often due to a missing library dependency. Have you had a look around the web? Is this issue reported elsewhere?

Sorry I can't be more helpful!

[charles17]

[EatMeerkats]

The notifications are working here with the "alsa crypt dbus gnome lightning" USE flags set. Perhaps try recompiling with "gnome"?

[paulj]

Here is mine:

[wthrowe]

Works here with -gnome:

[charles17]

Now, after several compilations with different use flag combinations I found my USE flags being ok. It's working also with "USE=-dbus". But does never alert for my regular profile where I use movemail box (and fetchmail) instead of ordinary mail box.

Looks like I have to cleanup my thunderbird's profile

[mhodak]

Guys,

I have recently installed Thunderbird as an email client, but I cannot get any sound for incoming messages. Neither of the two options "Default system sound for new mail" or "Use the following sound file" produces any sound. Using the play button also does nothing. Other applications (vlc, Mplayer, flash videos) play sound just fine. I have tested this under both XFce and Gnome.

Anyone has come across this issue?

[charles17]

To me it looks like Thunderbird is missing a certain USE flag for message notification sound.

[tomk]

Merged previous two posts.
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[mhodak]

Why is this labeled as "Solved"? I do not see any solution in there, nor do I think that the original poster has resolved his issue. Am I missing something?

BTW, my problem still remains, I cannot get any sound out of thunderbird, clicking on "Play" does nothing (when I choose to have my own wav file played) , no error message in the console. Sound in other applications works fine.

The use flags are:

[charles17]

mhodak
This thread has been marked solved as I saw it is WFM after creating an ordinary mailbox instead of using the movemail inbox. Did you emerge media-sound/esound as mentioned in my posting above? Feel free creating a bug for the probably missing esound USE flag.

BTW
I am curious about why Thunderbird has the alsa USE flag instead of using media-sound/esound.

[mhodak]

charles17:
I see now. This is unfortunately of no help to me, I had esound installed to start with, but the sound has never worked for me.

Also, I am not sure if thunderbird should explicitly depend on esound, it may be that something else down the line was broken and needed esound. It is certainly not needed at compile time (otherwise you wouldn't have been able to emerge it).

[charles17]