Confirming this. Mail-notification goes to 100% trying to connect to a pop3 account whenever the network is disconnected.
So I imagine the 100% applies whenever connection fails. The 100% cpu is a major pain, as it kills your battery life double quick. It makes mail-notification on laptops a serious liability. ** Changed in: mail-notification (Ubuntu) Status: Unconfirmed => Confirmed -- mail-notifcation hogging the CPU polling for GMail https://launchpad.net/bugs/2462 -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs