Re: New messages in thunderbird

[Antony Gelberg <antony@wayforth.co.uk>]

Steve Lamb wrote:
> Roberto C. Sanchez wrote:
> 
>>two computers.  Now that I have switched back to thunderbird, however, I
>>don't see the emails that have been delivered to the various folders.
>>Is there a way around this?
> 
> 
>     Imap?  If so you have to tell TBird to check for new mail in folders you
> wish for it to check new mail.  Folder properties.	

You can also set this in ~/.mozilla-thunderbird/<whatever>.default/user.js.

user_pref("mail.check_all_imap_folders_for_new", true);

For a supposedly user-friendly app, Thunderbird has far too many
settings configurable only in this way.