Hello everyone,
I want to know if is it possible to disable the Smart Suggestions on Mail App on El Capitan? I don't want to see the suggestion to add some event to calendar when I receive an email with a date or hour inside.
Thank you veyr much for your valuable help
Best regards
Roger
Have you checked the settings in Mail > Preferences > General and made sure it says "never" in 'add invitations to calendar'
Hello babowa,
First of all, thank you very much for your response.
Yes, I did check that in Mail > Preferences > General is selected "never" in 'add invitations to calendar'; and even I did check on Calendar App that on Calendar > Preferences > General is not selected the option "Show the Events Found in Mail calendar"; but even with this, when I receive an email with a date or hour inside appear the little bar showing the suggestion to add the event to the calendar. I'm starting to think this little suggestion bar can not be disable.
Best regards
Roger
Ok, one more place to check: System Preferences > Notifications.
You can disable any/all apps listed there by choosing 'none' in right column and UNchecking every option underneath. I'd start with Calendar and Reminders; you can add Mail if the first two don't do it. Personally, I abhor intrusions, so I have absolutely nothing active in Notifications Center - I will check if/when *I* want to check.
Ok, I did disable all the options on Notifications for Calendar, Reminders and Mail; but the suggestion bar still appear on a mail message that have a date or hour inside.
Again, thank you very much for your valuable help
Best regards
Roger
Quit Mail (and any other) app and shut down/boot up (better than a simple restart as more system components are reset).
I closed all the apps, keep all the notifications disabled, and shut down the Macbook, then turn on it again, and open Mail when starts the operating system; but again the suggested calendar event bar appears.
Hmmm, I am officially out of ideas - there is obviously some other setting we are missing. I do not use Calendar and have never set it up, so I can't replicate it. One other idea: do you sync between a Mac and iDevices? If you have things set up there, they may just pop up on the Mac.
Thank you very much for your effort, babowa. Actually, I don't sync any iPhone or iPad with this Macbook. I will keep looking for the solution and let know on this post if I find something.
Best regards
Roger
If nothing else works, you might want to consider an appointment at your nearest Genius Bar - troubleshooting/diagnostics are free.
Thanks for the advise. I will let you know in this post if there is a solution.
Best regards
Hello babowa,
After a little chat with Apple support, they confimed to me that this feature (smart suggestions on Apple Mail) can not be disable. doubt solved.
Thank you very much for your valuable help
Best regards
Roger
Interesting; I have not seen that on my El Capitan MBP (but then I've never even opened Calendar so that may have something to do with it). There is one other "new feature" I submitted a bug report for: they also added the "can't be turned off" feature of automatically fetching new emails even though I have it set to only do it manually. Never mind a user may not want that feature (or: why would the option of checking it manually still be available?). Reminder to myself: haven't checked that with the latest update to see if anything has changed or not as I rarely use Mail on that MBP.
Maybe this can be useful for your case documentation: on my MBP, when I did the update to 10.11 and 10.11.1, Apple Mail automatically fetch new emails but not as I want (I had to close Mail several times to "force" the fetch, even the button to obtain new emails didn't work) (I'm using an Exchange 365 account from my work). But with 10.11.2 this problem was solved. As usual some updates solve some little issues for some and add new headaches for others.
Thanks for that - I will check that later when I get to my MBP. After Apple had told me that it was "expected behavior", I sent a bit of a scathing reply that if there is an option, it should actually work.
You could just click the "x" on the far right side of the banner. It shouldn't pop up again. But why don't you like the suggestion? I've used it to add a few car reservations so far.
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