How do I turn off mail notifications?

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:

Message was edited by: Radiation Mac

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

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.

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.

Launch Mail.

In top menu bar, click mail, then preferences.

In the general tab, click on the right side of New message sound.

If the list does not include none, click a sound name to gear it, none should be at the top of the list.

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

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

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...

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.

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?

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?

Yes, I have the same problem on my High Sierra system with the ding, ding, ding, ding, . . .

I have clicked off all the notification and there is no mail icon to click.

Is it related to having my MacBook connected to my iPhone to my iPad? Aaaarrgghhh.

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.

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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??

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.