2.2 fixed fetching for me, but 'new mail' sound/vibration remains an issue.

I'm interested in finding out how many of you have found that mail fetching is now perfectly reliable but you're still not getting the 'new mail' alert...
I did a full restore and found that when the mail account was first reinstated, it chimed/vibrated correctly. However, subsequent mail deliveries are silent.
So restoring, unfortunately, still doesn't make it work. The fact that the 'new mail' slider is set to 'on' and 'vibrate' doesn't make it work.
Anyone else? 2.2.1, maybe? Anyway, we're making progress, so I'm really happy about that!

AndreTheGeek:
Yep, same here. I held off celebrating, but fetching/notifications worked great on Friday and Saturday, then Sunday afternoon, I noticed mail showing up on my phone without audible notifications. Turned it off, back on, no dice. Hard reset, no luck. Reset the network settings, and it fired back up again. Great!
This morning when I woke up, it had quit again, but seemingly due to a different problem. This time fetching was hung - when I would go to a particular mail account (I have 3: one push, one IMAP, one POP) the phone show "connecting" with the spinning wheel. Then it would show "updated" but the date was from last night, and the data transmitting indicator up at the top (to the right of the 3g) would keep on spinning forever. Turning off/on and hard resetting did not fix, resetting the network settings fixed it (again). So, give it a shot, just remember that when you do, it turns wifi back on, so you will need to turn that off if you do not want it chewing up your battery.
In the end, I would not worry too much - I am sure that this is just an isolated occurrence affecting only and handful of users. No doubt Apple is secretly working on a fix that they will release in two months, just as soon as the upgrade the iTunes store to allow you to upload custom photos of your neighborhood for use in streetview. The best part is this will only cost you 99 cents per upload.
I have reported this problem to http://www.apple.com/feedback/iphone.html anybody else having this problem should as well.

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You’re welcome.
Actually, I don’t participate here just to be helpful. I also do it to learn. I know WAY more about Mail now than I knew when I started helping people here... and without having experienced myself any of the problems I troubleshoot each and every day...
I really wanted an answer.
That’s precisely why you shouldn’t say in advance that you’ll give points. Nobody is going to assume you won’t, so there is no need to say you will. All you have to do is mark posts when appropriate (without saying in advance that you will). That makes everybody happy.
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Not if the OP somehow lets me know whether the proposed solution worked or not. Sometimes I know for sure what the problem is and how to solve it, but others I don’t, and the user’s feedback is way more valuable to me than any points I could get.
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