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I've posted a query about this on the Mozillazine forum as well, but I thought it might be worth exposing it to the collective wisdom here.
I've used Mozilla Thunderbird a my default email client on both PC and Mac platforms for more years than I care to recall. I like it and I ain't changing.
Until last week, I was using T'bird 3 under OSX Panther 10.3.9 on a G4 PowerMac. If you're familiar with it, you'll know that it has a setting whereby the dock icon lights up with a little green flag whenever it detects that there are new messages waiting at the mail server. Very handy.
This week I finally retired the venerable G4 from front-line duty (sob...) and am now working on a Mac Pro machine, running a fresh install of Snow Leopard 10.6.8. I've installed Thunderbird 5.0, imported all my old account settings, address book, mail folders etc., and all is fine - except for one irksome little thing.
I've got it set to "animate the dock icon when new messages arrive" - but it doesn't. The icon doesn't light up, change its appearance, bounce around - it just sits there all blue and inscrutable - which is a bit of a pain, as it means I have to go and check for new messages at frequent intervals, on the offchance.
I'm just wondering whether anyone else has noticed similar behaviour, or whether maybe I've forgotten to set something in my mail account preferences (although they're all set exactly as they were under T'bird 3 on the old machine, and it worked fine then).
All ideas gratefully received!
I've used Mozilla Thunderbird a my default email client on both PC and Mac platforms for more years than I care to recall. I like it and I ain't changing.
Until last week, I was using T'bird 3 under OSX Panther 10.3.9 on a G4 PowerMac. If you're familiar with it, you'll know that it has a setting whereby the dock icon lights up with a little green flag whenever it detects that there are new messages waiting at the mail server. Very handy.
This week I finally retired the venerable G4 from front-line duty (sob...) and am now working on a Mac Pro machine, running a fresh install of Snow Leopard 10.6.8. I've installed Thunderbird 5.0, imported all my old account settings, address book, mail folders etc., and all is fine - except for one irksome little thing.
I've got it set to "animate the dock icon when new messages arrive" - but it doesn't. The icon doesn't light up, change its appearance, bounce around - it just sits there all blue and inscrutable - which is a bit of a pain, as it means I have to go and check for new messages at frequent intervals, on the offchance.
I'm just wondering whether anyone else has noticed similar behaviour, or whether maybe I've forgotten to set something in my mail account preferences (although they're all set exactly as they were under T'bird 3 on the old machine, and it worked fine then).
All ideas gratefully received!
