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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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Nov 30, 2017 1:55 PM in response to rh1n0cer0s

My question is with Mac Mail and Google Calendar. I have several email addresses connected to Mac Mail and several calendars in Google. Even though I have turned off automatic notifications on all the email accounts and all my calendars I still get emails in my Yahoo mailbox for every event I make in my Google calendar, whether I ask for a notification or not. The emails appear with "Alert - (event name)" in the subject line. Anyone know how to turn these off?

Feb 13, 2018 8:38 AM in response to jaw444

Now it's 2018 and I'm still struggling with this.

I've done all of the above, and Mail app still insists on clanging its bell every time a new batch of mail comes in.

I've been trying to find out why the ****** preferences panel won't open, to turn it off there, but I can't get any satistfaction with that either, after days of searching, and rebooting in safe mode, etc etc.

I finally tried


defaults write com.apple.mail PlayMailSounds 0

in the Terminal, but even that doesn't seem to have worked. I am starting to think that Mail is not even paying any attention to its own defaults or properties.


Fwiw, I figured out the name of the property with


defaults read com.apple.mail | grep -i play


It's really astounding that such a basic simple USER DEMAND would be ignored, or denied through either a lingering bug, or a UX fail on Apple's part.


Guess I'll stick with Google Inbox in Firefox.

P

How do I turn off mail notifications?

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