Mail starts at boot up on my MacBook

• Command-click (right-click) on the Mail icon if it's in your dock
• Hover over "Options" in the menu
• If "Open at Login" has a tick next to it, deselect it

OR

• Go to the "System Preferences"
• In the search box, start typing "login items" then choose it when it appears below
• Make sure Mail doesn't appear in that table, if it does, select it and choose the minus button at the bottom to delete it from the list

If Mail isn't there, I'd say a something is calling upon it to open at Start-up, make use of the login items list to see if that can help you figure out what might be opening Mail on you. It might be some stupid program that wants to send a registration email or something.

Where do you get most of you're apps from? Mac App Store or the internet?

Hi.

I figured out how to solve it. I had the same problem. Basically, the tick next to 'Open at Login' when I right click on mail and click on Options was unticked. So I ticked it and then unticked it again. Then, I realised that I have to right click on it and press 'Quit' and then the dot underneath it should disappear. Then log out and back in again and it won't open!

I've had the same problem too with my macbook air. Every time I would boot the computer, the Apple mail app would come on. I am not entirely sure how I fixed it, but I did a number of things and it went away. First, I disconnected my Gmail account from the Apple mail app. Then, I checked if it was marked to start at boot (from the dock) or if it was on my, "Login Items" list; it was not marked for either. I disabled both my iCloud and Google iCal accounts and then removed the Apple email shortcut from my dock. I realize this overkill but feel free to experiment with the three different steps I took. I hope you find this helpful and let me know if you have any questions.

Do you close Mail before turning off the computer? If not, do that. Also, when you turn off the computer, unmark "Reopen windows when logging back in"

Many thanks for the tip. I have just done a clean install Mavericks 10.9.2, and the Mail app (which I don't use presently) appearing when I start my Mac Book Air was starting to annoy me...

THIS helped me so much! I had tried all the other options - checking the open at login, checking default mail client. Nothing pointed to Apple's Mail program. But the mention of iCloud here made me think. So I went to check out WHAT iCloud thought it was supposed to be syncing, and low and behold, there was Mail! Now the silly thing doesn't open by itself every time I first login after a restart. Thank you so much! This was driving me crazy!!

Thank you!

I had the same problem. Simply removing "mail app" from the dock did the trick for me. I didn't change anything in iCloud but simply removed mail from the doc. Thanks for the tip UzzielV7311

Unchecked the "reopen windows" box and fixed the problem. Thanks.