As a temporary work-around, I think crashes will be avoided if you set the "/apps/mail-notification/display-seen-mail" GConf key to true, and if you refrain from using the "Consider new mail as read" feature.
As a temporary work-around, I think crashes will be avoided if you set the "/apps/ mail-notificati on/display- seen-mail" GConf key to true, and if you refrain from using the "Consider new mail as read" feature.