I figured out the problem. In mail-notification the mail-notification applet only sends notifications if ubuntu is running a "stracciatella gnome" session. Stracciatella-gnome-session was a "vanilla" gnome session with very little ubuntu. Presumably mail-notification turns itself off for the regular ubuntu gnome session because of the evolution indicator.
However! Now that ubuntu has moved to unity, the gnome-shell session doesn't have the evolution-indicator conflict anymore and mail- notification should be enabled. The way to fix this would be to remove the is_stracciatella portions of the mail-notification plugin. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Desktop Packages, which is subscribed to evolution in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/878941 Title: Mail Notification Plugin Doesn't Notify Status in “evolution” package in Ubuntu: New Bug description: I am using Ubuntu 11.10 with gnome-shell. I am using the latest evolution with the mail notification plugin turned on. When I get mail I expect the mail notification plugin to present a popup and then leave a message in the notification tray. This does not always happen. One reproducible circumstance is if I leave evolution open on one desktop, move to another desktop and then leave my mouse focus on a window on the second monitor. (For gnome-shell the second monitor shared across all desktops by default). However, I've noticed the behavior in other instances. To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/evolution/+bug/878941/+subscriptions -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages Post to : desktop-packages@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
