Re: Phantom email

On 08/01/31 06:02, John Armstrong wrote:
> Has anyone else seen this?  I use Thunderbird 2.0.0.5 under eComstation 
> 2.0B3, and have set the program to make the 'gong' sound when a new 
> email arrives. 99.5% of the time, when a new email arrives, the gong 
> sounds.  Fair enough!  But once or twice a day, the gong sounds, but 
> there is no new email. Not in Inbox, not in Junk, and not in Trash.  
> Could this be some malware that is thwarted by landing in an unexpected 
> and unfamiliar operating system, or a quirk of TB, or...?
> 
> John
> 

My incoming mail sound is also used to indicate USB devices plugging and 

Has anyone else seen this?  I use Thunderbird 2.0.0.5 under eComstation 
2.0B3, and have set the program to make the 'gong' sound when a new email 
arrives. 99.5% of the time, when a new email arrives, the gong sounds.  
Fair enough!  But once or twice a day, the gong sounds, but there is no 
new email. Not in Inbox, not in Junk, and not in Trash.  Could this be 
some malware that is thwarted by landing in an unexpected and unfamiliar 
operating system, or a quirk of TB, or...?

John

Interesting, but not the case in my case.  John