Mail notifications

[timelessbeing]

Is there any way to make it so that I receive notifications for some email accounts, but not others?

 

[beatrixwillius]

Which mail client do you use? In AppleMail you can set up rules that affect different accounts. And you can make yourself a notification.

 

[timelessbeing]

It's the "Mail" app included with Catalina. Right now I'm getting notifications for all new incoming messages. But one of my accounts is for spam mail, and I don't want to be notified about it.

So how do I go about doing that?

 

[Taz Mangus]

1. In Apple Mail app select Mailbox->New Smart Mailbox.
2. Name the smart mailbox something like Notifications.
3. Add each mailbox that you want to receive notifications with the Message is in mailbox rule.

4. Open Mail->Preferences...->General.
5. Change New message notifications: form Inbox Only to Notifications (the Smart Mailbox created).

This will stop receiving the e-mail notifications for your spam e-mail account but it won't stop showing the mail message badge count for your spam e-mail account.

 

[beatrixwillius]

Go to Preferences -> Rules and click on Add Rule. Give your rule a name.

You can only select accounts and not exclude them. You have to change the "If all/any of the following conditions are met" to All.

Select "Account" from the list and select an account. Now click on the plus button and add a criterion for each account that you have:

In the actions select "Send Notification".

 

[Taz Mangus]

Go to Preferences -> Rules and click on Add Rule. Give your rule a name.

You can only select accounts and not exclude them. You have to change the "If all/any of the following conditions are met" to All.

Select "Account" from the list and select an account. Now click on the plus button and add a criterion for each account that you have:

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In the actions select "Send Notification".

I think the OP wants to stop receiving notifications for the spam e-mail account. They already get notifications for all the e-mails accounts.

 

[beatrixwillius]

That's why I said that all accounts except for the spam account need to be added to the rule.

 

[Taz Mangus]

That's why I said that all accounts except for the spam account need to be added to the rule.

The OP already received notifications for all e-mail accounts by the setting in System Preferences->Notifications->Mail. There is no selective way to disable receiving notifications for mail accounts, you either receive it for all or none at all. A mail rule will override the OS notification system.

 

[Taz Mangus]

I updated my post #4 with a different approach.

 

[timelessbeing]

Which mail client do you use? In AppleMail you can set up rules that affect different accounts. And you can make yourself a notification.

It seems to me that if I create the rule in your screenshot, that the message would need to meet "ALL" the criteria in order to generate a notification. ie the message would have to belong to ALL the accounts. I don't see how that's even possible. Don't you mean "ANY"?

I think the same logic applies to Smart Mailboxes, Taz.
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I updated my post #4 with a different approach.

I created the smart mailbox that collects messages from "ANY" of my non-spam accounts, and the notifications work just as I wanted. Thank you so much, Taz.

 

[Taz Mangus]

I created the smart mailbox that collects messages from "ANY" of my non-spam accounts, and the notifications work just as I wanted. Thank you so much, Taz.

Oops, I missed the “ANY” part. Glad you were able to get it to work.