Thanks, for the informative answer, and I have tried the Thunderbird extensions and none work with the most recent version of Thunderbird. Back to the drawing board.
On Jan 2, 12:06 pm, [email protected] wrote: > On 2 Jan 2010, at 16:08, Joelw135 wrote: > > > I guess I know my answer before posting, but I am still going to ask! > > Is it possible to show both the sender and the subject for Growl using > > Thunderbird? > > That is up to the developers of Thunderbird/the Growl notification plugin for > Thunderbird. > > A longer explanation, for the benefit of others who have had similar > questions: > > Slightly simplified, the basic information Growl gets sent from an > application in order to post a notification is: > * The identity of the application that is sending the notification > * The title of the notification > * The message text of the notification > * [optionally] an icon to display with the notification > plus some other stuff like priority, sticky, etc. > > The point being; all Growl gets from an application about what to display in > each notification is a small picture, and two small pieces of text. Growl > cannot go back and ask the application for more info, so the only way a > notification is going to get more verbose is down to the application sending > a more verbose message to growl. > > So to show sender and title in the new mail notification, Thunderbird must > fit that into the fields above, eg. by writing “<sender>: <subject>” as the > title of the notification. > If there is no way to do this in Thunderbird, then the short answer to your > question is no. > The longer answer is: it could be, but you’ll have to ask the Thunderbird > (Growl plugin) developers to provide a way of letting you decide what > information goes into the notification, if there isn’t already. > > As it happens, a quick search (for “growl”) on the mozilla addons site > revealed a couple of growl notifiers that at least claim to include both > sender and subject in new mail notifications, so you could give those a try? > > Hope that helps. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Growl Discuss" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/growldiscuss?hl=en.
