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Reviews for Mailbox Alert
180 reviews for this add-on
Rated 5 out of 5 stars
Excellent plugin, to answer the question about %message, after looking at the code it's implemented with %msg_preview. The author may have miss to put it on the help...
This review is for a previous version of the add-on (0.16.1).Rated 2 out of 5 stars
I have used this extension a lot. But... today I needed two folders to have a different alert for each one. And I come to find that the program can NOT keep two notification windows at the same time.
Being so, the extension becomes useless to me and a great deception. I'm sorry, but I need to move out. I can not believe this is not supported. Why is there the possibility of having a lot of alerts if they can not run at the same time, when one often recieve all messages at the same time... A shame.
Rated 4 out of 5 stars
It's good and it works! Exactly as advertised.
Please make it possible to change TB's tray icon in addition to popup messages.
I don't like to be disturbed by popups when working so I only occasionally glance to check if the icon has changed. Unfortunately, TB does not show 'new mail' icon when new RSS items arrive. So for now I am using other program for rss feeds and it wastes more memory that way.
Rated 5 out of 5 stars
Thank you! This is add-on is great. I have been wanting the ability to customize notifications by account (folder even better!) and to run an external command for years.
Suggestions:
I would love to see three changes to the notification window:
1) Currently only one action is allowed on the click of the notification window. I would love to be able to either close the notification or open the message. Would it be possible to allow a single-click and a double-click action or a right-click to pull up a context menu?
2) Would it be possible to show the first line or two of the email body in the notification window?
3) I would also second "osa"'s suggestion of seeing not just the last email alert, but the previous 10 (or so).
Once again, thank you for making this add-on and sharing it with us.
Rated 5 out of 5 stars
Great Add-on. I am using it with growlnotify on a Mac as well (command: "/path/to/shellscript/growlNotify.sh" %subject %sender). As variables containing German special characters (äöü etc.) did not show in the growl alert, in the shell script I added a conversion from iso-8859-15 (my thunderbird setting) to utf-8:
BOF code:
#!/bin/sh
# thunderbird_wrapper.sh
# v1.0
# David LaPorte
# 09/23/05
#SUBJECT="$1"
#SENDER="$2"
SUBJECT=$(echo $1 | iconv -f iso-8859-15 -t utf-8)
SENDER=$(echo $2 | iconv -f iso-8859-15 -t utf-8)
APP="Thunderbird"
# Location of growlnotify (located in Growl distribution)
# You will need to move it from the DMG to a local path
GROWLNOTIFY=/usr/local/bin/growlnotify
$GROWLNOTIFY -p High -a "$APP" -t "$SUBJECT" -m "From: $SENDER"
EOF code
(save as UFT-8 file and make executable)
Hope this is useful.
Suggestion: It would be great to add a feature that the mailbox alert stays on the screen permanently after a certain period of inactivity (30s for instance) just like in growl.
Rated 3 out of 5 stars
Όποτε δουλεύει είναι άψογο.
This review is for a previous version of the add-on (0.16.1).Rated 5 out of 5 stars
Awesome... "execute a command" is exactly what Thunderbird was missing! This is the perfect fix for getting Growl to work with Thunderbird on OS X Lion as well... see this post:
http://gluap.wordpress.com/2011/11/10/growl-1-3-and-thunderbird/
SUGGESTIONS:
(1) The default sound and message should be ENABLED by default immediately after install. If I just installed a new extension and activated it, I expect it to work right away, and not have to go hunting to try and figure out how to turn it on and make it work. At first I thought the extension was broken because it did not do anything (and there was no Preferences button: see #2 below).
(2) You should add a Preferences button on the Extension Add-On Manager page so it's easier to find the settings when you first install it... took me a little bit to figure out how to set it up. I at first assumed there were no Settings to change because it did not have a Preferences button (and thought that it did not work, which goes back to suggestion #1 above).
Rated 5 out of 5 stars
yes
i changed background color:))
before instal i opened xpi file with win rar then opened with win rar chrome/mailboxalert.jar and editet content/mailboxalert/newmailalert.css
now this extesion is 5 star:))
Rated 5 out of 5 stars
Works great with my Thunderbird 8.0. I use it to display new email alert for infinite time.
I suggest three usability improvements to the addon:
1) Display not only alerts for last email but also keep alerts for previous 10 emails displayed.
2) Add option to mark email as read on alert click
3) Marking email as read in Thunderbird shall hide corresponding alert.
This is five star addon. Implementing the stuff I am asking about will make it 6 star for me.
Rated 4 out of 5 stars
Although the add-on is excellent I am facing the same problem than before (I already included a comment here some time ago). There is a memory bug in the XPI. I do not know why but once the add-on is active TB starts to consume 20% of CPU as average... if I use Alert Switch it does not. I think that there is any process related to XPI that it seems to be checking something? but CPU increases to 20 - 22% of total and it should be not.
This review is for a previous version of the add-on (0.16.1). This user has a previous review of this add-on.Rated 1 out of 5 stars
Great idea if only it worked consistently, very unpredictable. Hopefully the developer will sort this out??
This review is for a previous version of the add-on (0.15.3).Rated 5 out of 5 stars
I had written a review warning this add-on was broken. I had spent a lot of time trying to get it to work on my system, to no avail.
The new version is working again. I love this enhancement- I have an e-commerce business and set up the sales folder inbox to play a cash register sound. I love that sound. When it was broken I was not getting that gratifying feedback. Now my job satisfaction is vastly improved when I hear someone is sending me money.
My only complaint is minor, the new delay is a little too long. But I am not crying over it.
Thanks for fixing the app!
Rated 1 out of 5 stars
Did not work with TB 8.0 - no notification. Under TB 7.0 it works fine - please fix it
This review is for a previous version of the add-on (0.15.3). This user has a previous review of this add-on.Rated 1 out of 5 stars
Trop complexe à utilisé ! Bricoler avec des macros quant on y connait rien non merci.
This review is for a previous version of the add-on (0.15.3).Rated 1 out of 5 stars
No matter how I fiddle with settings they either don't stick or don't work at all. Thunderbird 7.0.1 Windows7
This review is for a previous version of the add-on (0.15.3).Rated 3 out of 5 stars
0.15.2 works, but
testing the settings triggers an error:
[XX] error at undefined:224: [Exception... "Component returned failure code: 0x8000ffff (NS_ERROR_UNEXPECTED) [nsIPrefBranch.getBoolPref]" nsresult: "0x8000ffff (NS_ERROR_UNEXPECTED)" location: "JS frame :: chrome://mailboxalert/content/mailboxalert_funcs.js :: <TOP_LEVEL> :: line 224" data: no]
Linux, TB 7.0.1
Rated 5 out of 5 stars
Could you add a macro for %message to pass the text/body of the actual message? I use mine to be a network check register and that would come in real handy.
This review is for a previous version of the add-on (0.15.2). This user has 2 previous reviews of this add-on.Rated 5 out of 5 stars
0.15.2 does not work for me. Basically, it doesn't do anything. The "Test these settings" doesn't do anything either. I had to go back to 0.15.0 from the authors website at:
http://tjeb.nl/Projects/Mailbox_Alert/index.html
0.15.0 works great!
Thanks Tjebbe for a fantastic add-on!
Gordon
OpenSUSE 11.4
KDE4.7.2
TBird3.1.15
Rated 5 out of 5 stars
Since the update this app is not working properly I have had to go back 2 updates to how it use to be, otherwise this is one of those apps that I would gladly pay a donation for
This review is for a previous version of the add-on (0.15).Rated 4 out of 5 stars
mais ou son passé les global préférences , dans la nouvelle version 0.15 ?
Bug ??
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