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[Dan Chapman <dpniel@xxxxxxxxxx>]

On Sunday, 28 February 2016 09:57:27 GMT, Gareth France 
<gareth.france@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On 28/02/16 09:36, Hans-Peter wrote:
> > Hi to All
> >
> > I don't get notifications if new mail arrives in my gmail 
> > mailbox. I'm pretty
> > sure, I got them when the phone was new (around OTA7).
> > gmail is still enabled in system settings/notifications.
> > Is this something I messed up or is this a know issue?
> >
> > Cheers,
> > Hans-Peter
> Gmail appears to make its own decisions about which emails I need to be 
> notified of. It is very random and extremely annoying.

This is because the poll daemon only queries for unread messages with 
"is:unread category:personal in:inbox" [1] so you will only get 
notifications for mail gmail has categorised as personal and not for *all* 
new mail. 

Cheers

Dan


[1] 
http://bazaar.launchpad.net/~ubuntu-push-hackers/account-polld/trunk/view/head:/plugins/gmail/gmail.go#L330


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