thunderbird / thunderbird/thunderbird-android

Notification Settings — Address Default Settings Changes to Push for Documentation and App Listings

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Description

Our current documentation and description of our app on Google Play and other listings does not include that we have near real-time notifications enabled by default. We may have to better describe that if the user enables alarms and push notifications that we will automatically sync these folders using IMAP IDLE, which includes the possibility of real time push-like notifications on the user's device.

This can also include documentation for the user that IMAP IDLE (which we call "push" to the end user still), will be enabled by default for accounts that support it and it can be turned off in Folder Settings. We'll be improving access to folder settings in a future ticket, but for now that means pointing them to open the affected account in the side bar, selecting folder options, selecting inbox, and toggling push off.

Updates to documentation will include the update to turn this on by default

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