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Q: How do I turn off mail notifications?

I already went to System Preferences > Notifications and set Mail Alert Style to "none" and also unchecking notification center, badge app icon and sound options.

 

Despite taking these steps, the mail icon in my dock displays a "new email" light and dings whenever I receive a new email.

 

I don't want these things to happen because they are distracting to my productivity.

 

How can I disable this?

 

Thanks!

MacBook Air, Mac OS X (10.7.4)

Posted on Sep 18, 2012 9:46 AM

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  • by macjack,

    macjack macjack Sep 18, 2012 9:54 AM in response to rh1n0cer0s
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    Sep 18, 2012 9:54 AM in response to rh1n0cer0s

    In System Preferences > Notifications > select Mail and uncheck "Show in Notification Center".

    It should now appear under "Not in Notification Center".

  • by rh1n0cer0s,

    rh1n0cer0s rh1n0cer0s Sep 18, 2012 10:40 AM in response to macjack
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    Sep 18, 2012 10:40 AM in response to macjack

    I did, but I am still getting the notifications

  • by macjack,

    macjack macjack Sep 18, 2012 10:45 AM in response to rh1n0cer0s
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    Sep 18, 2012 10:45 AM in response to rh1n0cer0s

    Does now appear under "Not in Notification Center"?

    I just tested with GameCenter by first Choosing the app in the Sidebar, then uncheck marking "Show In Notification Center"

    it immediately moved beneath the line...

     

    by default 2012-09-18 at 10.42.22 AM.jpg

  • by rh1n0cer0s,

    rh1n0cer0s rh1n0cer0s Sep 18, 2012 10:51 AM in response to macjack
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    Sep 18, 2012 10:51 AM in response to macjack

    Yes is is not in notifcation center and everything is unchecked, but I still get alerts. 

  • by macjack,

    macjack macjack Sep 18, 2012 10:57 AM in response to rh1n0cer0s
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    Sep 18, 2012 10:57 AM in response to rh1n0cer0s

    The check marks are on a per application basis, if everything is unchecked they all should show under "Not in Notification Center" heading.

     

    If that's not stopping Notifications from coming, I'm not sure what's causing it.

  • by goponchogo,

    goponchogo goponchogo Dec 2, 2012 4:16 PM in response to rh1n0cer0s
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    Dec 2, 2012 4:16 PM in response to rh1n0cer0s

    Hi.  I'm in the EXACT same situatuation and it's VERY frustrating.  I've turned off all notifications but it continues for mail and calendar.  Did you ever solve this??

  • by sophieviansa,

    sophieviansa sophieviansa Dec 3, 2012 1:21 PM in response to goponchogo
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    Dec 3, 2012 1:21 PM in response to goponchogo

    Me too!! This is driving me bananas! Has anyone found a solution?  It's like getting tapped on the shoulder every three minutes when you're trying to concentrate.

  • by goponchogo,

    goponchogo goponchogo Dec 3, 2012 4:15 PM in response to sophieviansa
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    Dec 3, 2012 4:15 PM in response to sophieviansa

    Does anyone have any advice?  This is clearly a bug for certain conditions...just not sure what those conditions are

  • by Norm1974,

    Norm1974 Norm1974 Jan 8, 2013 1:18 AM in response to rh1n0cer0s
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    Jan 8, 2013 1:18 AM in response to rh1n0cer0s

    Have you tried switching "Mail alert style" to "None" in System Preferences/Notifications?

     

    The way I understand it is that deselecting the Notification Center doesn't automatically stop the alerts.  Doing the above seems to work for me.

     

    notifications.jpg

  • by Radiation Mac,

    Radiation Mac Radiation Mac Jan 8, 2013 3:43 AM in response to rh1n0cer0s
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    Jan 8, 2013 3:43 AM in response to rh1n0cer0s

    Open the "Mail" app>Preferences>"General">set the line that reads "Check For New Messages" to "Manually".  Otherewise you will continue to get the notifications of the automatic Email checking in the Dock and the sound:

     

     

    Screen Shot 2013-01-08 at 3.41.22 AM.png

     

    Message was edited by: Radiation Mac

  • by ReverendMatt,

    ReverendMatt ReverendMatt Mar 23, 2013 9:23 AM in response to macjack
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    Mar 23, 2013 9:23 AM in response to macjack

    Norm 1974's solution worked! It worked! Allelulia!

  • by M. Hannemann,

    M. Hannemann M. Hannemann Apr 3, 2013 1:48 PM in response to Norm1974
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    Apr 3, 2013 1:48 PM in response to Norm1974

    Norm1974, that's just what I needed.  Thank you!

  • by Jordankoop.88,

    Jordankoop.88 Jordankoop.88 Sep 21, 2013 2:43 PM in response to rh1n0cer0s
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    Sep 21, 2013 2:43 PM in response to rh1n0cer0s

    go to the mail app and go to the Mail>preferences and it should open up this tab

    Screen Shot 2013-09-21 at 2.31.43 PM.png

    On the line where it says "New Message Sound" make sure it says "none"

         - this will cure your audible "tap on your sholder"

     

    On the line where it says "Dock Unread Count" make sure it says "none" also.

         - this will make the red badge in your dock go away

     

    Where is says "Check for New Message" I would not turn that to manual or the computer wont get new messages and you will have to fetch new mail yourself under the mail app "Mail>Get New Mail" and when you are in your mailbox you probably want to see your mail at that time. So leave the Check for new message on.

  • by jaw444,

    jaw444 jaw444 Nov 11, 2013 11:19 PM in response to Norm1974
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    Nov 11, 2013 11:19 PM in response to Norm1974

    Norm 1974's solution sounds excellent, the kind thing i would want. But it seems that my OS, Mountain Lion, doesn't have those choices in the system preferences>notifications.  Those choices look great.  that's what i need.  In mail>preferences, there's no way there to turn thise things off. I have it set to none, but they keep coming.  this OS ***. i just got it a few days ago on my new computer. my old computer had snow leopard. Ther problems with mountain lion are endless.  I was using Eudora mail since 1995 but Mountain Lion doesn't support rosetta which means no pre-intel mac programs, which means no more Eudora. So i'm trying to set up Mail to sort my messages. My inbox has thousands of messages in it. I want to apply my rules so that those messages can be sorted into the mailboxes i created.  For every message that is transferred to a different mailbox, apparently, there has to be one of these notifications. That makes moving the messages take a very long time. Is there any way to turn those things off in this OS?

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