Keeping Thunderbird running in the background on Linux
I am new to Thunderbird. I have gotten fed up with Kmail in KDE for Linux, it is basically useless since it does not allow any of the modern login protocols required by MS and Google.
One thing Kmail did do, was start in the background so it was always periodically checking for mail and indicating new messages in the icon and notification in the desktop toolbar. So you didn't have to have it running in the foreground as a running application.
How can you do that with Thunderbird? I tried an experiment by closing Thunderbird down and sending emails to accounts I have setup but no notifications appeared until I restarted the app in the foreground.
Thanks
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This is a solution outside of Thunderbird. Just put it in the startup list at system startup.
You want Thunderbird to be able to receive mail when the main Thunderbird program is closed, so it would have to rely on some kind of helper program to be running invisibly. As you know, some apps do work that way. I do not believe that Thunderbird is designed to work that way. On my Mac, only two processes with "Thunderbird" in the name run when Thunderbird is open. They both get terminated when Thunderbird is closed.
I am not an expert. There may be more that I don't know.
service.technology said
This is a solution outside of Thunderbird. Just put it in the startup list at system startup.
In my KDE settings there is a service "Thunderbird Devices" that is starting, but it doesn't seem to actually do anything with the email. No mail activity until I actually launch the app. I checked services listing in the O/S (openSUSE 15.6) and there is nothing for Thunderbird available (which I kind of expected.)
Where else would I look?