How to make use of notify-send to get alerted when a chat-message arrives?

I would like to get notified, if a chat-message arrives. I tried two add-ons, both will play a sound, but not show a notification-window, as promised, so I'd like to do it myself, using `notify-send`. I suppose, that'll take to listen to a fitting event and execute notify-send, can someone please give me a hint, how to do that? Docs are rare.
Using Thunderbird 24.4.0 on Ubuntu 12.04
TIA, ida

Hi Matt and sfhowes,
I have tried several-addons with no success and suspect a problem with my Ubuntu, as they don't show any problem-reports of other users.
Writing a Thunderbird-add-on is a little bit challenging and not as well supported than writing a Firefox-Add-on. Also the used JS-func for alerting, when messages arrive, shows a lot of bug reports.
So I decided to go for a shell-script-solution now, listening to a fitting child-process and sent notificia. I will post it , when it's finished.
Thanks for your replies
Ida

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