Had the same problem on Ibex and tried jsteinhart's ppa version,
but it works only partially. I have two mail accounts and works fine with one
account but not with the other.
When the Inbox on the problematic account is added to the Mailbox list on
"Mail Notification Properties" window in Gnom
i had the same problem on debian...and you are right edit your
network interface file and set ethx (the network card on which dhcp
listens on) that it will start on boot time
hope this helps you
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dhcp3 fails to start during boot-time but starts seamlessly invoking the
init-script manuall