How to stop thunderbird causing kde notification popups?

Roderick Johnstone rmj at ast.cam.ac.uk
Mon Jul 19 13:59:57 UTC 2010


On 19/07/10 13:59, Rex Dieter wrote:
> On 07/19/2010 07:57 AM, Rex Dieter wrote:
>> On 07/19/2010 05:43 AM, Roderick Johnstone wrote:
>>
>>> One of my users has a problem with thunderbird popping up loads of empty
>>> notifications in the kde notifications thing, (i) icon in system tray.
>>>
>>> Can anyone suggest how I switch these off.
>>
>> As far as I know, thunderbird lacks notification support (firefox seems
>> to have it though).  For me, it uses popups from it's systray icon,
>> mostly for new-mail, which is configurable via
>> Edit->Preferences->General->When new messages arrive->Show an alert
>
> Come to think of it, I think I do recall there being a
> thunderbird/firefox addon or 2 that provides some sort of notification
> support... you may want to check which addons this user has installed too.
>
> -- Rex

ok thanks for the ideas. There were no addons, but there was a folder 
that imap was subscribed to that didnt exist which was generating the 
empty messages. I've fixed that now so the problem is gone.

Thanks again

Roderick


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