I'm using thunderbird with gmail imap. I have several filters setup since I receive a lot of email from several mailing lists. The notification for new mail is always lit, since I always have unread email. But I would like to restrict the new email notification to only my inbox for gmail or a specific subset of folder that I consider important. How would I do this if it is even possible?
Ubuntu – How to get thunderbird to give notifications for only the inbox
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In Thunderbird, when we Right Click on Inbox or any of the Folder Entries in the Left Panel, we get a Subscribe Option in the Context Menu.
Using this we can subscribe to a select group of folders among all the available folders in the Mail Account.
By doing so, Thunderbird checks for New Mail, only in those folders, and the indicator responds to new mail only in those folders.
While this solution does not work with configurations for OSD notifications, you can deal with your issue within the filters you've setup on Thunderbird.
Since the email notifications presented by OSD refer to unread messages, you can add to your filter the option Mark as Read.
This will prevent those messages from being presented by the OSD notification, thus solving your initial issue.
Best Answer
Starting with Oneiric, the Thunderbird version shipped with Ubuntu has an add-on bundled that handles integration into the message menu. That add-on called "Message menu and Unitiy Launcher integration" provides some additional options on the General tab in your Thunderbird settings (not sure about the wording, as I'm re-translating from German here ;) ). Near the options to play a sound file when a new mail arrives and such, you can decide whether the message notification should be lit for new mails and whether to do that for every folder or just for the inbox. I don't know a solution for choosing a custom set of folders, but maybe there's an add-on out there to do that.
TL;DR
Edit > Preferences > When new messages arrive > checkbox "Show in the messaging menu" > change radio from "For messages in all folders" to "Only for messages in my Inbox folder"