Comment 13 for bug 1498214

Yes, that's what I'm doing. However, you should see definitely see avatars in the notification indicator.

Some details on how I added the avatars to the contacts book:

1) Create a new contacts book entry with your own e-mail address and save it in the "personal"/system contacts book.
2) Then add an avatar to it.
3) The avatar should now be shown in the contacts book.

Then:

0) stop ubuntu-push-client
1) Add a Gmail account. Do not grant account to the contacts (even though I don't think that this part is relevant as the contacts are accessed by account-polld and not by the Gmail app).
2) Send yourself an email from the account for which you added the avatar. Send it to the Gmail account you added.

Wait a few seconds and then:

3) start ubuntu-push-client

Starting/stopping ubuntu-push is important as this bug only appears when polling from outside of the regular polling mechanism, e.g. when the account is initialized in account-polld!