OK so I've had my N900 over a week now and I'm loving it, but I think I have it set up wrong because there seems to be a critical failing regarding the email.

If I get a new email, it will appear on the screen when I click the top left button, and the notification light will flash blue. All good. But if I read the email elsewhere (using Thunderbird on my computer) the notification stays there even if a send/receive has been done in the meantime.

Also, once the notification has been seen, the unread emails are no longer flagged up. Is there some app or setting that allows a notification up near the clock with an "unread email" count? Is there any way of two way syncing when the email runs a send/receive (every 5 minutes)?

This seems like obvious stuff so I'm sure there is a solution somewhere...