Topic: Mail counts in Mozilla?

[Dan Brown]

I've been using Mozilla as a mail client for some time now (currently using version 1.6), and I'm very happy with it, except for one thing--it doesn't show new message counts for any folder other than the Inbox.  This issue doesn't arise using Outlook (which I otherwise despise), IMP, or ISMail.  Since I have the server set up to automatically filter messages into folders for each mailing list I'm on, this gets to be a bit annoying.

My server is running SME 6.0b3 with all updates.  Any ideas of how to resolve this (or, indeed, if it can be resolved without recoding part of the mail client) would be appreciated.

[Des Dougan]

Dan,

Create a user.js file in your profile directory and include the following:

user_pref("mail.check_all_imap_folders_for_new", true);

That will fix the issue. I have no idea why it's not a standard setting in prefs.js, but I've been using it since Mozilla shipped.

Des Dougan

[Michael Doerner]

Dan,
You can individually select the folders that you want to check for new mails:
Under each folder's properties you can select to "check this folder for new messages". Works very well for me.

Regards,
Michael

[Dan Brown]

Des, I wasn't able to make that work in user.js, but it worked perfectly in prefs.js.  Thanks!  Michael, I'd never seen that option before; looks like less hassle than manually editing config files.  Thanks to you as well!