You should indeed open Thunderbird to make it check for new emails. Its not possible to make Thunderbird a deamon that checks mails.
** Changed in: thunderbird (Ubuntu) Status: New => Invalid -- Thunderbird not running in the background https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/525782 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs