Comment 4 for bug 279364

User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; de; rv:1.9.0.7) Gecko/2009030422 Ubuntu/8.10 (intrepid) Firefox/3.0.7
Build Identifier: Version 2.0.0.19 (20090105)

There was a bug filed in the Ubuntu launchpad, which was classified as a feature request. Therefor, we're reporting it here so the Mozilla Thunderbird developers recognize it:

One of the best features of KMail is that after checking mail, a message REMAINS in the status bar saying a time (and date), and that there are no new messages. It lets you see that mail checking is going on in the background. Howerver, in Thunderbird, the status message flickers very briefly (often too quickly to read), and then disappears.

This is something that has been constant in Thunderbird over the last few releases that I've used.

Also see: https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/279364

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Check you mail using thunderbird

Actual Results:
The statusbar shows what Thunderbird does for a very short time, then the message disappears.

Expected Results:
Leave a message in the status bar, which shows when the mails were checked.