Close Mail window on "sign in"

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Close Mail window on "sign in"

I want to be able to close the Mail window/s if open when I sign in. I placed this script into login items and it does not fire when I sign in and the Mail window is open, yet it does fire when I click on it in the login window.

So, if the mac is asleep and the mail window is open and I sign in, the script does not fire. Does it need additional language, since I am signing in to a mac that is just asleep and is asking for a password since the energy saver sleep setting is beyond the 3 minutes it is set to? Running Catalina

Thanks

tell application "Mail"

try

close every window

end try

end tell

iMac Line (2012 and Later)

Posted on Jan 5, 2020 3:38 PM

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Answer 1

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Camelot

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Jan 6, 2020 11:44 AM in response to mrokloricred37

There seems to be some misunderstanding as to how the login items work.

Login items run when you first log into your account (after a shut down/restart, or after you explicitly log out).

By definition at this time, Mail won't be running, so there's nothing to do (chances are, even if you have Mail set to open at launch the script would fire before Mail had a chance to do anything).

As for waking from sleep, the is nothing that invokes Login Items on wake - you're already logged in, so there's nothing to do.

AFAIK, there is no trivial way to execute a script on wake. There are some third-party apps that have this ability, though.

SleepWatcher

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Power Manager

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Answer 2

Jan 6, 2020 11:55 AM in response to Camelot

Trying to get around Mail window opening randomly while Mail is running in Catalina. A "known" issue to Apple. I'd rather not go out of the Apple ecosystem with another mail client. Just wait for the "fix"

Thanks for your help

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Jan 7, 2020 8:47 AM in response to mrokloricred37

APPLEAL wrote:

Trying to get around Mail window opening randomly while Mail is running in Catalina. A "known" issue to Apple. I'd rather not go out of the Apple ecosystem with another mail client. Just wait for the "fix"

Thanks for your help

https://macreports.com/mac-mail-app-opens-itself-randomly-fix/

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Answer 4

Jan 7, 2020 2:14 PM in response to leroydouglas

I have tried all of it, still with the problem. Thanks

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Close Mail window on "sign in"

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