Mac Mail stealing focus

[salivan]

Is Mac mail still stealing focus in Big Sur (when using gmail accounts)?
It jumps and resizes my full screen apps every 20min.

Previous thread: https://forums.macrumors.com/threads/mac-mail-stealing-focus.2193643/

 

[FocusAndEarnIt]

Interested in this also. Have yet to find a fix for Catalina (or Mojave, for that matter). Although not the point of your thread, @salivan, have you found a fix? I've had to switch to using Kiwi for Gmail until Apple fixes this...

 

[newadventure]

A workaround is to set it up again but instead of choosing a Gmail account, choose Other. I did that and I haven't had Mail pop up since.

 

[tharitm]

Is this still a problem on Big Sur or did they finally fix it?

 

[salivan]

A workaround is to set it up again but instead of choosing a Gmail account, choose Other. I did that and I haven't had Mail pop up since.

That means you've to enable less-secure-app access feature in gmail. Doesn't sound good to me.

 

[gtjeta]

It seams to be corrected in Big Sur PB. At least I have been most of yesterday and today using the laptop and it did not open. I will continue monitoring this nasty issue in the next weeks, for me it was the most irritating bug in Catalina.

 

[newadventure]

It seems to be fixed for me

 

[throAU]

Is Mac mail still stealing focus in Big Sur (when using gmail accounts)?
It jumps and resizes my full screen apps every 20min.

Previous thread: https://forums.macrumors.com/threads/mac-mail-stealing-focus.2193643/

I switched to Spark for this reason.

Spark basically fixes like 90% or more of my complaints with Mail.

That's my fix. Not employed by spark or have a financial stake in it at all, but hey it works.

 

[salivan]

I switched to Spark for this reason.

Spark basically fixes like 90% or more of my complaints with Mail.

That's my fix. Not employed by spark or have a financial stake in it at all, but hey it works.

I tried spark, it didn't stick. I really like mac mail app, I find it to have right minimum features for me

 

[throAU]

I tried spark, it didn't stick. I really like mac mail app, I find it to have right minimum features for me

Yeah, it took me 2-3 goes for it to stick

 

[salivan]

Hey guys. Big Sur is here, and it seems like mail app is fixed.