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I am trying to turn off the new mail sound (Mezzo) in Big Sur 11.2.3. So far, I have turned it off in Notifications in the System preferences (and restarted my Mac mini M1) and turned it off in Mail Preferences (and restarted the Mac mini M1). No luck with either method. When I choose to turn it on and select a tone, it still chimes the Mezzo tone anyway. Any ideas? My next move is to delete the Mezzo sound and see what happens. Thanks.
Randy: You can’t really delete the Mezzo sound (at least not without turning off System Integrity Protection). Try redoing what you did before. The change in Mail Preferences should be the one that does it. If not, you’ll need to call Apple about it. Or just keep using it — is it really that important to spend a lot of effort on it?
I have some new info Gary. I have a MacBook Pro with same version of Big Sur and it does not have this problem. Only the M1 Mini. And, I found the place to turn off all sounds in the Preferences Sound panel and that seems to stop it. I appreciate your quick reply, and your videos are well done and very valuable to me. Thanks, Gary.
Randy- I’m in the same boat. Sound is off for new mail and mezzo plays every time. I’m a teacher and the laptop dings every time I get a message during class and I have to use sound for google meet. My only option is to close the mail app. Have you figured this out yet? If so, please share!