The lastest update to GNOME3 involves changes to the GNOME schemas, which do not work with the mail-notification schemas. While the code compiles, I don't have the expertise to fix the schema to conform with GNOME update.
are you saying it's broken? if so, it needs to be marked broken, not just unmaintained.
Yup. It won't start up properly.
A commit references this bug: Author: marino Date: Fri Nov 28 17:50:41 UTC 2014 New revision: 373570 URL: https://svnweb.freebsd.org/changeset/ports/373570 Log: mail/mail-notification: Fallout of Gnome 3, release maintainer This port builds, but it will not run since Gnome 3 came in. The maintainer does not have the expertise to fix the port and thus needs to release it. Additionally the port has been marked broken. PR: 195430 Submitted by: maintainer Changes: head/mail/mail-notification/Makefile
Okay, done. Thanks for letting us know!