a new version of mail-notification is avaiable (4.0)... It will be bumped into portage?
Created attachment 103446 [details] mail-notification-4.0_rc1 i created an ebuild. works fine with gnome-2.16. new killer feature is support for thunderbird/seamonkey mailboxes.
rc2 is in CVS now -- thanks for the bug and sorry for the delay.