I suppose it was inevitable that I would move to Linux as I’ve been using open source software for quite some time. One of the programs I used on Windows was Thunderbird. And as I have mentioned elsewhere, I have quite a few mail folders and it got to the stage that I had email but didn’t know I had it as it was buried in some folder or other. Enter mail alerts in the form of a pop-up and sound.
The Mailbox Alert extension for Thunderbird was a godsend for someone like me as I could assign a .wav file and popup to each subfolder for different regular correspondents.
Then I switched to Ubuntu in early January and had so many problems to solve that the lack of sound in Thunderbird (apparently Thunderbird looks for a defunct/deprecated sound system in Ubuntu) was left on the back burner. Trawls through the Ubuntu forum showed that a lot of users have this problem and that they are all as stumped by it as myself.
Until I remembered Mailbox Alert, that is. Now I have sound and a pop-up message when mail comes in. I haven’t used it long enough to see if it breaks some other program’s sound, so I’m not relaxing about it just yet. But in the last week I’ve solved a slew of Ubuntu problems (that I had) so I’m hoping I can settle to problem-free Linux computing before too long.
