Comment 4 for bug 850229

My Messaging menu does not contain Thunderbird at all, just a "Mail" item and when I get new mail, it does not reflect that. Also on the launcher icon for Thunderbird there is no unread count showing over the icon. I am rather disappointed with this situation and is there anything I can do to fix it? Or is that the work involved in this bug. I only have Thunderbird installed and no other mail programs. If I click the Mail item in the Messaging menu it takes me to Thunderbird but there is no unread count available visually anywhere. I do have notifications installed which pop up a dialog box when mail arrives. This is frustrating because all these things used to work in the previous Ubuntu version.