Birdtray is a free system tray notification for new mail for Thunderbird.
This is free and open source software.
Key Features
- Shows the unread email counter in the Thunderbird system tray icon
- Optionally animate the Thunderbird system tray icon if new mail is received.
- Snooze new mail notifications for a specific time period.
- Checks the unread e-mail status directly by reading the Thunderbird email mork database. This means it does not need any extensions, and thus is immune to any future extension API changes in Thunderbird.
- Hide the Thunderbird window and restore it. There is also context menu for that (this currently only works on Linux).
- Configure which accounts you want to check for unread emails on.
- Choose different font colors for different email accounts. This allows you, for example, to have blue unread count for personal emails, red unread count for work emails, and green unread count if both folders have unread mail.
- Can launch Thunderbird when Birdtray starts, and terminate it when Birdtray quits (configurable).
- Choose the tray icon, or use Thunderbird original icon.
- Monitor that Thunderbird is running, and indicate it if you accidentally closed it.
- Configurable “New Email” functionality, allowing pre-configured email templates.
- Cross-platform support – runs under Linux and Windows.
Website: github.com/gyunaev/birdtray
Support:
Developer: George Yunaev
License: GNU General Public License v3.0
Birdtray is written in C++. Learn C++ with our recommended free books and free tutorials.
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