Turn off email notifications?

[chuckwilmot]

Hi guys, just got the ICS, no particular problems with it, except that I'm back to my original problem, which is that I can't figure out how to turn off the email notifications without turning off other things.  I had it handled before ICS (although I don't know what I did to achieve it), but now I'm back to having a sound and vibrate whenever I get an email.  I don't mind the notification when I get a message - that's helpful - but I don't care about any notification at all when I get emails.  Can you walk me through that?

[Ann154]

Mail > menu > settings > notification settings > uncheck the boxes as needed.

[chuckwilmot]

Hi Ann,  "mail" where?  If I go to the icon for the mail app, it just wants me to set up an account, and I already have that.  I can't find any other place to go.  If I navigate to personalize>sound>notifications, I can get to a place for email, but although I can choose a sound, there is not a selection for "no sound".

[Ann154]

Do you just use the Mail app or the Gmail app for your email?  If you already have an account in the mail app, those instructions should work on the Tbolt.  I was going through the steps on mine as I wrote it here.

The gmail app is different.

[chuckwilmot]

I have the gmail app, but I rarely get email there.  It's there primarily because it's the only email app I can figure out to send photos to others.  My primary mail app is Yahoo.  So I have the Yahoo icon for email, and it's the one I'm mostly interested in turning off the sound notification for.  I don't mind a vibrate notification, but I don't want the sound.

[Ann154 · Accepted solution]

OH! You are using the Yahoo app for your email.  The settings notification for that app is stored in there and not the stock "Mail app. 

A friend who uses the Yahoo app was actually not getting any notifications for their email and had to re-install the app to see if it would fix the problem.

[chuckwilmot]

Thanks Ann.  I rebooted my phone, and it appears to be back the way I wanted it, but I don't know what is different from the initial boot after ICS loaded.  I am going to go to a Galaxy SIII in March, so I guess I'm not going to worry about figuring this out any further.  Thanks for the fast response.