MAILBOX ALERT

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Don’t forget to turn on the HMTL tags checkbox, otherwise the texts don’t appear if there is a ‘<‘ character in it.

A friend of mine, who wishes to remain anonymous, whipped up some c++ code to show a popup from the system tray, so you can have nice messages in Windows too.

There is a second version already, this one shows the Thunderbird icon, and has a third optional argument; the timeout in milliseconds.

You can download the source and binary: Popup2.zip Popup.zip

To use it, copy the file Popup.exe from the zip to a directory on your hard drive, and set the mailbox alert to:

If your directory has spaces in it, put a in front of them. Quoting does not work. It looks weird with the backslash also being the directory separator, but it works.

This code is unsupported. I do not have access to a windows machine with a compiler and will not be able to improve on this. I have tested it briefly on a Windows XP machine and it seems to work.

If you do have a compiler, and can improve on it, I will gladly put it up on this page, or link to your site, provided the source is up there too.

Another option to use with Windows is mNotify which looks pretty nice if you don’t mind the color. It takes two arguments (remember, if you want spaces within the arguments, put a backslash in front of them.

(this is for versions before 0. 13, or for people who like Growl better than the internal system. Which would be understandable)

I have had reports that mailbox alert ‘show a message’ option produces an error when using it on mac OSX. Apparently this part of the Thunderbird/XPCOM library is disabled for OSX at the moment.

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