After removing my Mac mail account from the screen and starting to use Safari or other site, after a while, my mail account automatically opens again on my screen. It does not seem to have anything to do with arrival of a new message or anything. It just pops back up. How can I stop this from happening?
Perhaps you have a setting in Mail to automatically check your mail every so often? And when that time happens Mail perhaps brings up it's own Window to show you what's new? Since you appear to be leaving Mail running and have just closed it's window, then that might be happening. If that is what is happening go to Preferences in Mail and then click on General and change the "Check for new messages" setting to Manually? With this setting you only see new mail when you click on the "Get new mail on all accounts icon" at the top left of the Mail window. Do you also hear the "new message" audio prompt when this happens? The new message audio sound is also set in the General tab of the Mail Preferences window (third from the top on my version of Mail Preferences General pane window). This did not happen during my testing but just wanted to mention about the "manual" checking of e-mail to eliminate a possible issue.
Another way this might be happening is if you use the keyboard shortcut Command+0 -- command and the zero key at the same time -- that will cause the Mail window to also appear. Perhaps you might be typing this accidentally when Mail is the active app?
Good luck...
Perhaps you have a setting in Mail to automatically check your mail every so often? And when that time happens Mail perhaps brings up it's own Window to show you what's new? Since you appear to be leaving Mail running and have just closed it's window, then that might be happening. If that is what is happening go to Preferences in Mail and then click on General and change the "Check for new messages" setting to Manually? With this setting you only see new mail when you click on the "Get new mail on all accounts icon" at the top left of the Mail window. Do you also hear the "new message" audio prompt when this happens? The new message audio sound is also set in the General tab of the Mail Preferences window (third from the top on my version of Mail Preferences General pane window). This did not happen during my testing but just wanted to mention about the "manual" checking of e-mail to eliminate a possible issue.
Another way this might be happening is if you use the keyboard shortcut Command+0 -- command and the zero key at the same time -- that will cause the Mail window to also appear. Perhaps you might be typing this accidentally when Mail is the active app?
Good luck...
Ronald Everet Said:
”...my mail account automatically opens again on my screen. It does not seem to have anything to do with arrival of a new message or anything. It just pops back up. “
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Force Quit Safari:
Force Quit Safari, rather than leaving it open. Then, see if this still occurs. If so, then it’s clearly Safari doing this. To do so:
Disassociating and eMail Account:
Disassociate this eMail account from your mail.com, then add it back.
Ronald Everet Said:
” I just don't want the screen to pop up when I'm working on something else.[...]There should be no reason for my email screen to pop up when I'm not using it.”
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Thank you for clarifying.
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Remove your Mail Application as a Login Item
Login Applications automatically launch when you log in to your system user account. When you need to use it, open it up. Then close it once usage is complete. So, in all, rid of it as a Login Item. To do so...
Ronald Everett Said:
"When I open System Preferences, nothing shows up as Accounts."
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Go to: System Preferences
Select: Users & Groups: on the bottom - left of the window
Select: Login Items tab
Click: The Lock
Enter: [Your Password]
Click: Unlock button.
Select: "Mail" or the other App's Name and..
Click: the minus sign:
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It doesn't happen if I really close the mail program, either by force quit or just click "file-quit mail." I usually leave it open so I can look at new mail more easily. However, until recently, it never popped up without me clicking on it.
You seem to miss my point. I can handle all of my emails. I just don't want the screen to pop up when I'm working on something else. It just gets in the way and is distracting. I have to stop whatever I'm doing and close the email screen so I can proceed. There should be no reason for my email screen to pop up when I'm not using it. Maybe it's time to use another email system as Apple apparently has lost their ability to do anything right any more, be it mail or Safari!
When I open System Preferences, nothing shows up as Accounts. The closest that shows is Internet Accounts and all that shows is my Internet addresses. When I searched for Login Items, it highlighted "Users and Groups". When I opened Users and Groups and clicked in Login Items, it showed a number os applications but "Mail" is not listed. How do I get from System Preferences to the mail application?
I think you've hit this one correctly. I had it set to check for mail automatically every five minutes. I took a look at how I had my previous iMac set where I never had a problem. It was set on Automatic but no time frame checked. My guess is that without a specified tine checked it will collect the new emails but not make the window open. I'm going to try that and see what happens. If it still opens the window when I don't want it to, I'll switch to the Manual setting you suggested. Thanks for your idea. I'm sure one or the other is going to do the trick.
It appears to be either a Gmail or G Suite thing. It doesn't happen to everyone using those things, but it only happens to people who use those things.
I'm not using Gmail. I use mac.com
Try This: Just wait until it all comes back. Then delete the eMails as they come.
What OS are you running on?
This is what I did and Mail is not shown at all. This is what it shows and nothing else. However, I think dot.com had there answer.
Well, the attachment didn't work but as I mentioned, I think dot.com got the right answer so I'm going assume the problem is fixed but thanks a lot for spending your time trying to help.
Mail keeps popping up
