Hi Janina, In Notification preferences, you can manage/adjust notifications for individual applications. You do not need to use Do Not Disturb. By default, in macOS Catalina, the Mail app displays a banner notification for each incoming mail item. This can be adjusted as follows: 1. Go to System Preferences > Notifications. 2. In the applications table, select Mail. 3. Set Mail alert style to None. 4. you can set other Mail notifications to your liking, such as a sound for incoming new Mail, and displaying a Badge App icon alert for new mail.
HTH - Brad - On Apr 11, 2020, at 05:17, 'Janina Sajka' via MacVisionaries <[email protected]> wrote: Hi All: I'm trying to give Apple's Mail application the old college try--having heard people say how much they like this app over the years. I have mine configured and working. It's sending and receiving as I would expect. Here's my problem: It's far too chatty. It wants to notify me of every new email arrival and read me the top of the message. Sometimes that's a good thing, but often it's a nuisance that interferes with other work. It's certainly a nuisance for my Mac to start chattering like a chipmunk while I'm in the middle of saying something on a work teleconference. So, I'm looking for easy ways to turn this behavior on and off. Suggestions would be most appreciated. My ideal is an easy toggle mechanism as having those automated announcements is truly useful--but not always. So far all I've found is the Do Not Disturb facility under System Preferences / Notifications, but that seems to want a time frame. Surely I shouldn't be reduced to specifying midnight to 23:59 as the DND window? Surely something other than a sledgehammer is available? Surely I'm missing the nuances somewhere? Thanks in advance! Janina -- Janina Sajka Linux Foundation Fellow Executive Chair, Accessibility Workgroup: http://a11y.org The World Wide Web Consortium (W3C), Web Accessibility Initiative (WAI) Chair, Accessible Platform Architectures http://www.w3.org/wai/apa -- The following information is important for all members of the Mac Visionaries list. If you have any questions or concerns about the running of this list, or if you feel that a member's post is inappropriate, please contact the owners or moderators directly rather than posting on the list itself. Your Mac Visionaries list moderator is Mark Taylor. You can reach mark at: [email protected] and your owner is Cara Quinn - you can reach Cara at [email protected] The archives for this list can be searched at: http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/ --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "MacVisionaries" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/macvisionaries/20200411101759.GD2868%40rednote.net. -- The following information is important for all members of the Mac Visionaries list. If you have any questions or concerns about the running of this list, or if you feel that a member's post is inappropriate, please contact the owners or moderators directly rather than posting on the list itself. Your Mac Visionaries list moderator is Mark Taylor. You can reach mark at: [email protected] and your owner is Cara Quinn - you can reach Cara at [email protected] The archives for this list can be searched at: http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/ --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "MacVisionaries" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/macvisionaries/17C4531C-85A8-4048-8CF0-77F332B21591%40swbell.net.
