Dock Evolution Mail to notification area in Ubuntu

If you are using Evolution for your email needs then you must be aware that Evolution doesn't dock. So either you leave it open, in which case it will be continuously cluttering you window list, or you just close it. But then you wont get new mail notifications. But there is a third option, although Evolution doesn't dock itself, you can use another application called alltray to dock it. alltray can be used to dock any open window to notification area. Its really simple to install and use.
you can install it using

sudo apt-get install alltray

after installing just run alltray from command line or Alt-F2 using command

alltray

a dialog will appear asking you to select window that you want to dock. it will also change you cursor. when you select a window it will be immediately docked to notification area.If you dont like this approach and want an application to have notification icon as soon as it starts then you can launch an application with alltray. So for Evolution you can write following command:

alltray evolution

this will start evolution and immediately dock it to notification area.

if you want application to show when it starts then you can use --show option for alltray

alltray --show evolution

There are other alltray options that you may want to use e.g. --sticky for showing application on all desktops, --no-alltray to stop alltray from adding alltray to applications title and etc. use alltray -h for details of available options. You can also change edit the menu entry for evolution in Applications->internet to this command so that whenever you launch evolution it has dock i con