On Tue, Oct 31, 2006 at 08:19:20AM -0800, Gordon Charrick wrote: > I've set up Thunderbird with 2 different accounts. One is a pop account > from my ISP, and the other is a regular mbox account for local email. > > The pop account works just fine. I get notified when new mail shows up. > The problem is that I get no notification when I get local email. If I > select the inbox for the local mail and click the "Get Mail" button, it > shows up immediately. Under the server settings I have it set to check > for new mail every 5 minutes but it doesn't seem to work. Anyone else > see this problem and have a solution? I believe it's a feature. It has never worked for me, and several months ago even led me to submit to the temptress known as Evolution for awhile, just so I could see my mbox traffic show up without having to click "get mail" (or whatever). I'm now back with T'Bird. Evo and I didn't get along very well. Jay