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)
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?
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.
I did, but I am still getting the notifications
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 damned 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
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...
Yes is is not in notifcation center and everything is unchecked, but I still get alerts.
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.
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.
Does anyone have any advice? This is clearly a bug for certain conditions...just not sure what those conditions are 😟
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.
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:
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Norm 1974's solution worked! It worked! Allelulia!
How do I turn off mail notifications?
