Thunderbird Mailbox Alert

Mailbox Alert (via Genbeta) is a add-on for the popular mail client Thunderbird that adds the option to the program to define alerts for mail folders in Thunderbird.
Alerts can be messages, sounds or commands. The default functionality in Thunderbird allows to define one sound or notification that will be played or displayed when new mail arrives with spam mail excluded from that for obvious reasons.
With the Mailbox Alert extension it is possible to only enable alerts for specific folders that contain important mails and ignore other folders that do not receive high-priority emails.
Even better, you can customize the message or select different sounds for different mail folders so that it is even easier to distinguish between different incoming mail notifications.
Configure alerts in Thunderbird
Mailbox Alert does provide a better customization of sound and notification alerts in the desktop email client. In addition to customizing alerts, it adds a new feature to Thunderbird's alerts feature as well.
The ability to start commands when a new mail arrives in a certain mail folder is excellent. The commands have to point to a file on the system but can contain parameters. I did not test if batch files are supported but I assume they are, why should not they be?
One possible scenario to make use of this new feature would be to run a script that would move attachments to a network drive whenever a mail with attachments arrives in a specific folder.
There are however other options that you have. You can run an external virus scan on certain files, run server commands, write data to a log file, or run a back up software to save them to the local system right away.
Another option would be to run voice and use the extension's variables that it makes available to provide you with details of the message or messages that arrived. It could read out load the folder the mail was filed in, the sender address or name, or the mail subject.
Defining notifications and sound alerts is pretty straightforward and does not really need any explanation. One nice feature are the global preferences that define how and where the Notification alert appears on the screen and how it reacts to a left-click. The available options are to close the popup or open the message.
If you select text notifications, you can use a set of variables such as %sendername in them so that they reveal information about the email directly to you. The Thunderbird extension supports quite a few variables including %folder, %subject or %count among others.






You said that Outlook isn’t your main email client, so which is your main one?
I think its thunderbird
It is Mozilla Thunderbird.
Awesome! This actually solved my problem… what a stupid bug.
If this is the same bug that I’ve encountered, there may be another fix: (1) hover over open Outlook item in Taskbar, cursor up to hover over Outlook window item, and right-click; (2) this should give you Restore / Move / Size / Minimize / Maximize — choose Move or Size; (3) use your cursor keys, going arbitrarily N/S/E/W, to try to move or size the Outlook window back into view. Basically, the app behaves as though it were open in a 0x0 window, or at a location that’s offscreen, and this will frequently work to resize and/or move the window. Don’t forget to close while resized/moved, so that Outlook remembers the size/position for next time.
THANK YOU Claude!!! I could get the main window to launch but could not get any other message window to show on the desktop. You are my hero!!!!
Solved my issue! 6 years later and this is still problem…
Fantastic. Thank you. Size did the trick.
This solved my Outlook problem, too. Thank you. :)
Thank you so much, this started happening to me today and was causing big problems. You are a life saver, I hope I can help you in some way some day.
You are a god – thank you!
thanks a lot…. work like charm.. :-)
Yah…thanks Claude. I’ve been having the same problem and tried all the suggestions…your solution was the answer. It had resized itself to a 0/0 box. Cheers
Excellent post. This had me baffled even trying to accurately describe the problem. This fixed it for me.
Thank you
Thanks a lot for the article. Don’t know why it happenend, don’t know how it got fixed, but it was really annoying and now it works :-)
Thanks a lot. I was facing this issue from past 3 week. I tried everything but no resolution. The issue was happening intermittently and mainly when I was changing the display of screen ( as i use 2 monitors). The only option i had was to do system restore. But thanks to you.
I’ve been tried to sole this problem for 12hours. Your comment about changing the display of screen helped me a lot!! Thanks!!
Thank you…don’t know why this happened but your instructions helped me fix it. Running Windows 10 and office pro 2007
Great tip! Thanks!
Worked for me, too – thank you!!!
It’s Worked for me, too
thank you very much!
I had a similar issue with Outlook 2013 on Windows 10 and this helped me to fix it. Thank you very much!
Thank you so much. Solved!
Considering you published this in 2012, incredible not been debugged by Microsoft.
Thank you again. M
This problem was faced by only one user logging to TS 2008 r2 using outlook 2010.The issue was resolved.
Thanks.
Great tip. Thank you!!!! If it helps, I had to use the Control Key and the arrow keys at the same time to bring my window back into view. Worked like a charm.
Thank you, this worked !!!!
Man, you are a fucking god. Thanks a lot, what an annoying bug!!
Awesome, this post solved the issue. Many thanks!