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Is it possible to set or disabled Mail notifications on a per-account basis on Mountain Lion's notification center?
I have shared an email address that gets a lot of emails that I only need to check once in a while and it would be great if I could disable notification for this email. I can't find any settings to do this on Mail preferences or Notifications preferences.
Except for your requirement of setting quiet-times, one possible option would be Google Notifier. Perhaps you could have a cron process that starts and stops Google Notifier at specific times?
(Since the accepted answer for this question is outdated and the actual answer is buried as a comment, I’m providing a better answer for all future people with this question, in hopes that it will become more visible.)
The default behavior for the Do Not Disturb feature is stopping notifications while the screen is locked, so that your iPad/iPhone won’t keep buzzing in your pocket/backpack/desk while you’re trying to concentrate on something else.
That’s good, but not what we want. We want to stop notifications while we’re using the device.
Well, at least since iOS 12 there’s an additional setting within Settings > Do Not Disturb that you can turn on, here:
All you need to do is change the “Silence” option to “Always” in this screen. It will keep any and all notifications away from your screen as you write, read, present content to others, play a game, etc.
Best Answer
EDIT: it is possible
See @Erwin Wessel's reply below.
Deprecated:
Unfortunately, this is something that is currently not possible in the standard UI in Mountain Lion/Mail.app or System Preferences. As you are aware, the only choice you get is all or nothing.
Some thoughts regarding work-arounds:
Because it is a shared account, you are limited in what you can do with the message - unless it is POP3. If it was your account, you could create a folder, and a rule, that would cause all the mail to redirect into, skipping the inbox. Again, if this is an IMAP configuration, this wouldn't be desirable as colleagues may not desire all the mail to disappear into some folder.
You end up with one main option, if Mail notifications are important on all your other accounts - which it obviously is.
The main option would be to simply open Mail Preferences and select the shared account and deselect "Enable this Account". Then you would open Preferences and check that box when you want to view the account.
Caveat: it must be a IMAP setup for that option to work.
Your second option would be to try using Herald for Mac. (CNET download). However, I have not used it personally and don't know if it would do what you desire, but it looked like there was a chance you could control which Mailboxes received Notifications.