I have been looking to a way to link Thunderbird and Growl for showing me mail notification messages for a while now. Thanks to this post, I was able to get it working today.
One issue I faced that I have four mail accounts in Thunderbird and I don’t care about three of them, but by default the above hack gives a notification for all messages. Thankfully, the back end controlling the notification is a good old bash shell script. After a little hacking, all was well.
To digress a bit, I would like to propose the following theorem.
You will always need to code a shell script right after you’ve forgotten the syntax of the if and for statements.
Proof: Emprical story of my life since I wrote my first shell script.
Thankfully, there is a corollary:
Every possible shell script in bash has already been written (and indexed by Google).
Proof: See above.
Back to Thunderbird. Thunderbird has had Junk mail filtering for a while now, and occasionally it will interpret some messages as “Junk” and give you a button to indicate that it’s “Not Junk”. Today, I saw this:
Interesting to note that there’s a difference between “scam” and “junk” mail detection. Even more interesting to know that Thunderbird doesn’t particularly care much about NUS Business School!
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