Thunderbird steals focus too often

[Arnaudus]

Binary package hint: thunderbird

Thunderbird constantly steals focus, which is annoying for several reasons:
1. it disrupts the current activity
2. when thunderbird is running in another desktop, it is difficult to understand what is happening.

Disruption windows (popups) include e.g. "Domain name mismatch", or "failed to connect to server."

As I understand, such popups make sense if the user updates the mailbox actively. However, they should be disabled when mailboxes are updated automatically, since these problems do not require immediate attention.

System: Ubuntu 9.10
thunderbird:
  Installed: 2.0.0.23+build1+nobinonly-0ubuntu1

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

Status changed to 'Confirmed' because the bug affects multiple users.

[Markus Birth (mbirth)]

For me, Thunderbird (+Lightning) just pops up into the foreground without stealing focus. But it's annoying as hell, because it seems to emit some notification which is instantly removed again. And thus, the main window pops up every few minutes without any important message.

This is on Ubuntu Oneiric 64bit as of today.

[kkivi (kkivi)]

Ubunto 14.04
After update happend on 05 june 2015.
Was working fine before.
My feeling it stills focus when tries to fetch email ( I configured frequent updates)
It steals focus from it's own "new message window and from other applications

I almost cannot work

[kkivi (kkivi)]

No, it is not the fetch from server
first I found I have 10 minutes interval
Secondly, If I have message selected in the message list, there
is some strange event that "Unselect" the message (focus is switched to some other window)

[kkivi (kkivi)]

Please ignore my previous two comments
I found that the problem caused by different application
Sorry

[Paul White (paulw2u)]

We are sorry that we do not always have the capacity to review all reported bugs in a timely manner. You reported this bug some time ago and there have been many changes in Ubuntu since that time.

Do you still see a problem related to the one that you reported in a currently supported version of Ubuntu? Please let us know if you do and in which version of Ubuntu otherwise this report can be left to expire in approximately 60 days time.

Thank you for helping make Ubuntu better.

Paul White
[Ubuntu Bug Squad]

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

[Expired for thunderbird (Ubuntu) because there has been no activity for 60 days.]