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4. Select Show Notifications on Lock Screen if you want to display notifications for
Mail when your Mac's screen is locked and requires a password (configure the
screen lock in System Preferences > Security & Privacy > General).
5. Select Show Message Preview if you want Mail notifications to include a portion
of the message text; choose either When Unlocked or Always from the pop-up
menu to determine when the preview is shown.
6. To set the maximum number of notifications that can accumulate in Notification
Center, choose 1, 5, 10, or 20 Notifications from the Show in Notification Center
pop-up menu. Or, to prevent notifications from appearing in Notification Center
at all, uncheck the box here.
7. If you want to prevent Notification Center from listing the number of outstand-
ing notifications on Mail's Dock icon, uncheck Badge App Icon. (If this is un-
checked, Mail's Dock icon won't display the number of unread messages, even if
you've set it to do so in the General pane of Mail's preferences window.)
8. If you want to prevent Notification Center from playing a sound when a notific-
ation occurs from Mail, uncheck Play Sound for Notifications. (Unlike the previ-
ous setting, even if this unchecked, Mail still plays sounds when new messages
arrive if you've set it to do so in Mail > Preferences > General.)
Changes take place immediately.
Note:
In addition to alerting you when new messages arrive, Mail can trigger notific-
