Hello Janine, I think the reading of the message that just arrived is happening in the Notification Centre and not in Mail. Go into System Preferences which is both in the Dock and in the Apple menu and select Notification Centre. You can then move Mail out of the list of applications that use notifications.
Cheers, Anne On 11 Jul 2013, at 22:25, The Smiths <[email protected]> wrote: > Thanks for that Nicholas. I figured it was because of POP3. Xtra here does > not support IMAP as far as I am aware. I will work through your answer, I > would assume to navigate to the right to the message list table is VO plus > right arrow? > > I have noticed when I am in mail, e.g. writing an email, if a new message > comes in it reads it. Is there a command to allow the mail to come down but > not read it straight away? > > Regards Janine > > -----Original Message----- > From: [email protected] > [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Nicholas Parsons > Sent: Thursday, July 11, 2013 7:19 PM > To: [email protected] > Subject: Re: mail on macbook pro > > 1. This has probably got something to do with your email provider (Yahoo) > and/or the fact that you're using POP3. It can also be with the type of > account you've set up. I'd strongly recommend you look into using IMAP > rather than POP. > > If you want to import your contacts from Yahoo you might be able to export > them from the Yahoo website and then import them into the Contacts app on > your MacBook. I'd recommend using your iCloud account for reminders and > calendars and the like. > > 2. When you've selected the mailbox you want, stop interacting with the > mailbox list, navigate to the right to the message list table and interact > with it.. You could also try VO-J. Another thing to be aware of is you can > put mailboxes in your favourites bar, and then use the short cut keys > Command with numbers 1 through 9 to move to the first nine mailboxes in your > favourites bar. > > > -- > 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 post to this group, send email to [email protected]. > Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out. > > > > -- > 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 post to this group, send email to [email protected]. > Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out. > > -- 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 post to this group, send email to [email protected]. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
