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Fix Google Mail notifications when they inexplicably weren't working. Fixes #3300. I don't really know why this is a setting, given that the server can reasonably determine a client's interest based on an initial request at login (which is what the google:mail:notify doc still says). Moreover, they explicitly say clients shouldn't set this setting to false.

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