If the error occurs (let say that your wireless connection has not been yet established and mail watcher can't check for new mail) and then things go back to normal (your connection gets established) the small red icon in the bottom corner of mail watcher that alerts you of the error does not disappear. (I'm using xubuntu 9.10 with xfce 4.6.1)
*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 4747 ***