Stop Mail Opening On Bootup

[KennyC]

I've been looking all over for a setting to stop my mail from opening when system boot's up. I went into sys pref then User's & Groups and it's not on there, dbl clk mail and it's not turned on there either. I have my calendar to open which sits behind mail after I close it out. Would like to get mail to stop loading at boot.

Question: Is there a way to stop this?

 

[MacInWin]

When you shut down, there is a dialog box that offers to re-open the open apps on reboot. Uncheck that box and the Mac will boot clean. See if that stops it.

 

[Slydude]

If Jakes suggestion doesn't work post back and let me know. There is a way to do it using Automator that will tae a few minutes to build and test but it is dead simple to do. It can run with or without a mouse click being required to run it.

 

[ferrarr]

Right click on the Mail icon in the Dock, select Options, and uncheck, Open at Login will also stop Mail from opening at login.

 

[pm-r]

Right click on the Mail icon in the Dock, select Options, and uncheck, Open at Login will also stop Mail from opening at login.

I'll bet Bob's simple suggestion works for Kenny, but just a question to Kenny, just how often are you shutting-down and rebooting??


It's usually best to just let the Mac sleep, it won't use much electricity that you could probably measure and it allows it to do some maintenance in the wee small hours while you would normally be sleeping.

Just some Mac OS info that you mentioned you were looking for the other day, and as a new user interested in learning.






- Patrick
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[Slydude]

I'll see if I can find the reference but I'm pretty sure the way those scripts run changed some time ago. In the early days of OS X if a Mac was off when the daily, weekly, and monthly maintenance scripts were run the scripts did not run until the next scheduled execution date. With the last several OS versions the scripts now run the next time the Mac boots. So, whether the Mac is off or on at a specific time doesn't matter as much as it used to.

 

[KennyC]

Fixed: Jake hit it. By unchecking reopen window next time boot when shutting down fixed the issue. Now just my calendar open's as I wanted when I turn on my machine.
Thanks to all for their input too.

Patrick, I shut down daily when finished. I'm on a ups but with the power fluctuations down here I just shut it down. I see a lot of folks here don't do that, it's something I've been doing for years on a win box.
Bob, I did look there but nothing was checked.

 

[pm-r]

Patrick, I shut down daily when finished. I'm on a ups but with the power fluctuations down here I just shut it down. I see a lot of folks here don't do that, it's something I've been doing for years on a win box.

Errr... but Kenny... you've got a Mac now so you might want to change your old Windows habits... it will thank you for doing so...


PS: Don't forget to send the credit earned:

Fixed: Jake hit it.

(it's the little dark gray thumbs up icon in the bottom left corner of the poster's post.)





- Patrick
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[KennyC]

I've tried to give Jake credit but each. time I get "You must spread some Reputation around before giving it to MacInWin again". I have given other credit too.

 

[ferrarr]

I've tried to give Jake credit but each. time I get "You must spread some Reputation around before giving it to MacInWin again". I have given other credit too.

I "believe" the magic number is 10, where you would have to spread it around to, in order to give reputation points to others members again.

 

[MacInWin]

Don't sweat it, Kenny, happy to help.