Thunderbird tray icon for mail notifications

Question

I was trying to write a script which would add a new mail icon to my system tray, but apparently Thunderbird does not support checking for new mail from the command line.

I've tried a number of plugin, but they all seem to have only a vague description. The ones I tried just modified the new mail popup.

Therefore I'm looking for a plugin which displays an icon in the system tray for unread mails. It's not necessary to display the number of unread mails, but it would be nice though.

score 11 · Accepted Answer · answered Apr 21 '16 at 10:42

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In the past I used this plugin: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/thunderbird/addon/firetray/

a quote from the official plugin page:

display unread messages count in tray icon

Worked perfectly as far as I can remember.

answered Apr 21 '16 at 10:42

Luca D'Amico

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Firetray does not show mail count in the system tray on KDE due to limitation of `libappindicator`, see [here](https://github.com/foudfou/FireTray/issues/143) – Be Brave Be Like Ukraine Dec 01 '16 at 04:09
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As of Thunderbird 60.0 (August 6, 2018), FireTray is no longer compatible. – Sparhawk Aug 11 '18 at 01:31
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@Sparhawk Fortunately, there is a fork for Thunderbird 60+ https://github.com/foudfou/FireTray/issues/242 – tuxayo Nov 14 '18 at 14:37
@tuxayo Brilliant! That works perfectly. Thank you for posting here. – Sparhawk Nov 14 '18 at 21:57

Thunderbird tray icon for mail notifications

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