How do I stop Mail.app from emailing alerts?

Well done, and THANKS for sharing!

If anyone finds a thread with a solution that stops Mail.app from loading & sending email for each calendar event. Please post a link here too.

The solution is posted in this thread, please read it (it is the one with the green checkmark)

Hey Csound1, I've read that solution. I do not see the toggle in the screenshot. I've checked my system preferences, mail preferences and calendar preferences. Perhaps I'll just delete my account from system prefs -> mail, calendar & contacts. Hopefully that fixes it.

It is in Calendar Preferences, but it may look different (depending on the version of Calendar)

This is from 6.0, the current version

Do you have it (Calendar>Preferences>Alerts)

Don't pull the account from System Preferences.

Csound, this isn't the fix that I am looking for. I would like Mail.app to stop running everytime that I have a calendar event.

I have tried toggling those settings, but it hasn't changed that. Thanks for your help.

Go to Calendar.app

On the righthand side, right-click the calendar for which you want the alerts to stop

Click "get info"

Click the "account info" button in the dialog box that pops up

Click "alerts" from the menu across the top

Under the "account" drop-down menu, choose the email account in question (i.e. gmail)

Select "none" for each of the drop-down menus (i.e. Events, Birthdays, All-Day Events)

Check the boxes at bottom for "Turn off shared calendar messages in Notification Center" and "Turn off invitation messages in Notification Center"

Hope that helps!

Just my tuppeny'th ...

The "accepted solution" is only part of the story for me. Changing that setting alone did not fix it, as every time the calendar was resynced with Google, the alerts were re-instated. This was a particular problem for recurring events (which are the ones you normally don't need so much reminding about!)

So in addition, I had to go through each event and change its description very slightly at the same time as removing the alerts I did not want.

That seems to do the trick for my Mac and the Google calender interaction.

However, I still have the alerts popping up on my iPhone, which is very annoying. There does not seem to be a corresponding iOS setting :-(

Thank You!! This was helpful...

it was so hard and so easy to find...

I want to get the pop-up notifications on my Mac, but I don't want iCal to send email notifations – ever.

Is this the problem that causes hundreds of email draft windows to open super fast all over my screen because they each individually want to verify the outgoing server? Because of this, I cannot open Mail.app. It is ridiculous. I would like to video it happening, but because it is calendar events, I don't want to show those.

You might want to consider starting a new discussion. Since this one is marked solved, less people are likely to look at it. You can link to this one.