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[BobGreen]

I have recently upgraded to a Apple desktop. One thing that’s annoying me when in the middleod working is the email window randomly opens on the screen. How do I stop this ?

 

[Brisel]

I'd like to hear the answer to this too. I use Outlook on mine, so I don't want the standard one popping up. I haven't mind to find anything in the Preferences menu.

 

[Clive]

I'd like to hear the answer to this too. I use Outlook on mine, so I don't want the standard one popping up. I haven't mind to find anything in the Preferences menu.

set outlook as you default mail client (in outlook settings i think)

 

[Will 1594]

When saw that clive ,thought you on wrong forum ,thought you after hair remover

 

[Johnnyboxer]

When saw that clive ,thought you on wrong forum ,thought you after hair remover [emoji1787]

Me too
Had to ask the missus what brand she favoured
Razor & spit she said [emoji50][emoji54][emoji6]

 

[Cowabunga]

I have recently upgraded to a Apple desktop. One thing that’s annoying me when in the middleod working is the email window randomly opens on the screen. How do I stop this ?

Leave Mail open in another window and it won't pop up in your working window every time it checks for new mail.

You can adjust mail in other ways by opening it and making it the active window, then at the top menu bar you click Mail, Preferences then choose your default. I prefer Mail to Outlook myself.
Then 'Check new messages'. Change this to 'manual' if you prefer not to have Mail open in an inactive window checking automatically or at the periods you can choose in this tab.

That gives you several easy choices to suit your preferences.

 

[Dry Rot]

I have an iMac and get the pop ups, but they are quite small and up the top right hand corner of the screen. But (unless I've missed it) you don't say what operating system or mail programme you are using. This may make a difference. I am on High Sierra and my mail program is Thunderbird (it's free). Apart from Macs generally annoying me by trying to be clever, it is tolerable.

 

[Cowabunga]

I have an iMac and get the pop ups, but they are quite small and up the top right hand corner of the screen. But (unless I've missed it) you don't say what operating system or mail programme you are using. This may make a difference. I am on High Sierra and my mail program is Thunderbird (it's free). Apart from Macs generally annoying me by trying to be clever, it is tolerable.

I think it only started doing this with Catalina but continues with Big Sur, the current major refresh. It certainly does not open Mail in a split screen with High Sierra, which was introduced in July 2017 and was superseded by Mojave iirc about a Autumn 2018.
High Sierra still works perfectly well, as you know, and is the latest operating system that any pre-2013 [approximately] Mac can use without significant tinkering [which loses brightness control and a few other things, so is not worth the bother].

I have one machine, to my slight right, that runs High Sierra, and the other to the left of it running Big Sur, which was only downloaded and installed yesterday morning.

 

[Brisel]

set outlook as you default mail client (in outlook settings i think)

I found that setting - it's in the Apple mail Preferences, not Outlook. The standard mail window still opens though.

 

[Cowabunga]

I found that setting - it's in the Apple mail Preferences, not Outlook. The standard mail window still opens though.

As I mentioned, set Mail Preferences to update Manually rather than automatically.

 

[BobGreen]

It just opens randomly even if there’s no new mail. Annoying when in the middle of something. My son persuaded me to go to Mac After using windows for years I’m finding it hard to convert. I do have Microsoft office on it though
Im used to apple with phone and iPad so I’ll get there eventually

 

[Cowabunga]

It just opens randomly even if there’s no new mail. Annoying when in the middle of something. My son persuaded me to go to Mac After using windows for years I’m finding it hard to convert. I do have Microsoft office on it though
Im used to apple with phone and iPad so I’ll get there eventually

Yes, it opens when it checks for new mail. Just set it to Manual collection or leave Mail open in a window other than the one you are working with.
Why it does this since Catalina I've no idea. It might even be a bug rather than something they have purposely designed in. I see no good reason for it, especially as the Notification Centre gives you a flag at the top right corner when new mail arrives.
By the way, you can control what pops up in Control Centre by clicking on the Apple logo on the Menu bar [top left] First upgrade to Big Sur for the new notification centre,
[I auto-hide my Menu Bar so need to move cursor to the top to see it]. Then System Preferences, then Dock and Menu Bar, then choose the items down the left and whether you want

You can control what you flag up in the Notification Centre as well. Until Big Sur this had its own icon on the top right of the menu bar but now you just click on the clock in the menu bar. Again you control its content through Apple logo, then System Preferences, then Notifications. Here you can choose whether to have banners, sounds or alerts or 'none' for the various apps. Alerts stay on top of the window until dismissed while banners go away after a minute or two. There are widgets in the Notification Centre also but I haven't figured out how to customise them yet.

 

[BobGreen]

Yes, it opens when it checks for new mail. Just set it to Manual collection or leave Mail open in a window other than the one you are working with.
Why it does this since Catalina I've no idea. It might even be a bug rather than something they have purposely designed in. I see no good reason for it, especially as the Notification Centre gives you a flag at the top right corner when new mail arrives.
By the way, you can control what pops up in Control Centre by clicking on the Apple logo on the Menu bar [top left] First upgrade to Big Sur for the new notification centre,
[I auto-hide my Menu Bar so need to move cursor to the top to see it]. Then System Preferences, then Dock and Menu Bar, then choose the items down the left and whether you want

You can control what you flag up in the Notification Centre as well. Until Big Sur this had its own icon on the top right of the menu bar but now you just click on the clock in the menu bar. Again you control its content through Apple logo, then System Preferences, then Notifications. Here you can choose whether to have banners, sounds or alerts or 'none' for the various apps. Alerts stay on top of the window until dismissed while banners go away after a minute or two. There are widgets in the Notification Centre also but I haven't figured out how to customise them yet.

Thanks for that. I just need to find the time to sit down and get my head round it.

 

[Cowabunga]

There is a theory which you can test and try where some claim it if Google account's Calendar app that is opening the split Mail window. Apparently some have had successful suppression of the Mail window opening if they have Mail as the active current window, then Mail Preferences, then choose General and Default Calendar as Calendar.App and at the bottom, the Default Calendar to be the Selected Calendar. According to some, this will stop Mail opening. Don't know if that works or not.

 

[Dry Rot]

Well, mine doesn't update and I don't rent software.

 

[Cowabunga]

Well, mine doesn't update and I don't rent software.

It updated to High Sierra, through various operating systems at some point. Like I said, your old machine, just like mine, is just not capable of being updated beyond High Sierra.
This is the sequence that mine, and probably yours updated through from 2011 ...

• OS X 10.7 Lion- 2011
• OS X 10.8 Mountain Lion- 2012
• OS X 10.9 Mavericks-2013
• OS X 10.10: Yosemite-2014
• OS X 10.11: El Capitan- 2015
• MacOS 10.12: Sierra- 2016
• cOS 10.13: High Sierra- 2017

If your machine is older it probably started its life with Leopard from 2007 and then Snow Leopard from 2009.
Machines built from around 2012, depending on model, are capable of further updates through...

OS X Mojave
OS X Catalina
OS 11 Big Sur, which was only released in the last 10 days.

Apple do not charge for updates but do support machines and operating systems for a very long time. My High Sierra machine had a security update just this very lunchtime.

 

[Woody]

I have an iMac and get the pop ups, but they are quite small and up the top right hand corner of the screen. But (unless I've missed it) you don't say what operating system or mail programme you are using. This may make a difference. I am on High Sierra and my mail program is Thunderbird (it's free). Apart from Macs generally annoying me by trying to be clever, it is tolerable.

You are just seeing notifications.

Go to System Preferences / Notifications to change what pops up.