Do you support Notifiers as in Incredimail.
My wife and I have ditched IncrediMail following it's downward spiral in user-friendliness since being taken over. They now have the policy of charging for their PLUS version EVERY YEAR, whereas it was a one-off payment for their Premium version, which had much the same features. That aside, it is now fraught with bugs, hang-ups, sluggishness, etc.
Hence, we have looked at alternative e-mail programmes and decided that Thunderbird offers most of the features that we liked in IM, plus many more. However, the ONE thing that we miss is the Notifiers. Is there this facility somewhere in the bowels of Thunderbird that does the same?
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Not sure what you mean by Notifiers. What did it do ?
Do you mean pop up an alert to say new mail arrived? Yes. Do you mean notify you in a pop up of an event in a calendar like a birthday ? Yes.
If Calendar: Good info here: https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/products/thunderbird/calendar
If you were familiar with IncrediMail you would be aware of what they call Notifiers. Whenever an e-mail arrives from a friend, relative, etc a specific image, called a Notifier, which you have allocated to that particular sender, shows on the screen, enabling you to see at a glance who has sent it. You can have dozens of different Notifiers as specified by yourself. (See example attached)
There is no reason why I should know about IncrediMail :)
In Thunderbird you can set alerts, which is a short version of email as it arrives. It is shown as a pop up and you can also set it to the tray as a reminder.
Not quite as useful.
As I use email alerts, ( and also event alerts ) which also include a sound to prompt if not at computer. They are very useful in that they contain information on who is sending, the subject , a preview of text which is immediately visible and a preset length of time for display. I can have them left in the taskbar tray as a prompt that something has arrived. From my point of view an image of a sheep tells me very little. As I receive quite a few emails, it is more useful to see all new emails in one batch rather than loads of images popping up. There is probably little difference between the two types in that you are alerted or notified, about an email arrival, but in the end, I suppose it is down to what you are familiar with using.
All the best.