Pressing ' M' Toggles the selected email's 'Read / Unread ' status You can determine how long Thunderbird will show emails as unread, from instantaneously becoming 'Read' upon selection, or a few minutes - (it seems like Thunderbird lets you enter astronomical amount of seconds.) New emails are shown in bold to distinguish themselves from read mail. You can click the blue 'has 1 new message' text to show Thunderbird.īy default, when a new email arrives, Thunderbird displays an envelope icon in the tray area of the Windows Taskbar, (next to the clock.) This one, unlike the popup New Email popup indicator, will remain visible in the system tray area until at least one of your emails has been (marked as) read. If you are lucky enough to be in front of your computer when a new email arrives, you will see this small indicator appear for a few seconds on the bottom right of your screen.

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