"Notes" Appear in "Mail" Inbox

Gee thats weird. I never heard of that happening. There is no setting to do this except maybe if you notes are trying to back up to your email somehow? This sounds like a bug and a restore might do the trick. But i would try taking it to an Apple store if that fails. Make sure to make an appointment.

Sorry misposted.

Stedman

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DON'T RESTORE, there's a setting!!

I use gmail on my iPod and if I go to:

Settings->mail, contacts, calendar->my gmail acct

There is a switch for notes. Just turn it off! 🙂

Notes (written on your touch) will show up in the Mail (OS X) inbox. I suggest you write a rule to direct those to the folder you want them in. You can do this in Mail > Preferences.

Above 'Show' and the fetch settings is your email acct. Hit that and you will see the switch for notes.

As far as where they are saved, I don't know where that is. For my gmail it automatically labels them as notes and saves them there, not in the inbox like yours do. I use gmail. What mail do you use?

Now that I think about it, they may have been saved in my inbox at one time. I don't use notes that often and when I do I have it save onto my iPod only. Are you on iOS 4 or have you updated to 4.0.2?

I am using the same, 4.0.2 and gmail.

Would you like me to post all of my email settings so you can compare? I did a test this morning. For a note to sync with my gmail I have to go to accounts in the notes app and choose my email. Once the note is saved it is automatically archived in gmail under notes or with the notes label. I never see the note in my inbox. In fact, to see notes from my gmail on my iPod I have to into the notes app, the notes label/folder doesn't show up in the email app itself. If I use safari to access my gmail the label does show up.

Is this clear or did i confuse you? That is how you want it to work, correct?

the cyber gremlins came for me in the form of snow leopards as this problem occured immediately after updating from leopard to snow leopard... thanks! this post saved me time!

You are 100% right. I've been banging my head about this for 2 days. I do not sync my notes with mobileme ever and suddenly they were appearing in my inbox. I don't have an ipad but have an iphone and went to the settings just like you suggested and the switch was turned on. I had just done an upgrade and it must have flipped the switch in the settings.

This has been happening to me as well - and the trash folder suddenly gets moved. It's driving me NUTS! I have three synced Macs - one of which can't run Leopard because it's not an Intel. This is really annoying because I have to keep going in and changing the preferences and I don't know what changes it back. Help!

Two or three notes continue to appear in my inbox, I try shifting them to the Notes icon/folder but they stubbornly reappear in just the same spot in my inbox.

This has only occurred since updating to OSX 10.6.6, iTunes 10.1.1 (4), ios 4.2.1 which I've done in the last two months.

The 'Show notes in inbox' in Acc prefs is unchecked.

Odd isn't it, perhaps these 2 or 3 notes are corrupted, will try deleting them and see what happens.

The mentioned setting at

Preferences > Accounts > (select account) > Mailbox Behaviors
Uncheck "Show notes in Inbox"

works only till you quit Mail. Next time you open Mail, the Notes will show up on Inbox again.
Major bummer.

Further to my previous post re this topic.
I am still experiencing the problem of having notes appear in my mail inbox, however, since my last iPhone sync some of them are appearing in duplicate and triplicate! And on the iPhone as well - notes are duplicated, and in triplicate.

So for me this issue is not solved.

I've just had my iPhone replaced by Apple due to it crashing back to reboot whilst on phone calls, the notes issue occurred both before and after the change of iPhone.

iPhone 3GS, iOS 4.3, Mail V. 4.4 (1082)

The 'show notes in mail inbox' in Prefs is not ticked.