How to fetch email in the background?

I use GNOME Evolution as my email and calendar client. It only sends email notifications and event reminders while Evolution is running. Is there a way to make the notifications component run in the background so that I still get notified without always having to keep an Evolution window open? I am on Ubuntu 20.04.


On 18.04 LTS and 20.04 LTS you can install the package evolution-indicator.
It should provide the functionality you want.

Below is a screen from Synaptic:

Synaptic with Evolution Indicator