[SOLVED] XFCE Thunderbird Dock Notifications

I am running XFCE on my Aspire One Netbook (532h). I use Thunderbird as my e-mail client and it works great apart from a small issue. There is no dock notification in my desktop for notification of new email. I do get a green-white envelope on my Windows Thunderbird system but I don't really understand what is the difference since they both have the same exact extensions and plugins (MinimisetoTrayRevived). I read about libnotify and other things but since XFCE has its own xfce4-notifyd, I think it may be redundant to install both or am I thinking in a completely wrong direction?
Thanks!
Edit : I read some more about this and the green envelope in Windows is not a Thunderbird notification but a Windows notification that Thunderbird uses. Still, is there any way to replicate this in Linux?
Last edited by whyaname (2013-08-27 08:54:46)

I downloaded the Mailbox Alert but that is for floating notifications by default isn't it? Any idea what the command would be to obtain a dock notification?

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