Comment 2 for bug 539483

Now, mail-notification shouldn't have dependencies with Evolution, but trying to build it from source on my Xubuntu-enabled laptop w/o GNOME installed, I found that it's very much a GNOME app. So when using Xubuntu it may be better to use the Xfce4 Mailwatch Plugin available on the XFCE panel.

This is slightly inferior, though - it does not list the new mails in the tooltip, and it also doesn't update the unread count when the IMAP mailbox is updated, e.g. by reading the email in mutt.

And still, as can be seen on the Debian bug report I mentioned, mail-notification shouldn't depend on Evolution.