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In iOS6, on iPhone 5, how can I disable sound and vibration for a specific mail account only? I have one mail accounts that is a bit to highly frequented, which results in a lot of ringing and vibration. However all the other mail accounts behave just fine.

Unfortunately I only see one global setting for the whole mail app.

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Maybe you can consider setting mail retrieval to Manual for this account, which will only check for new mails when opening the Mail app? – Gerry Oct 18 '12 at 12:12
That'd be one solution, yes. Not optimal though. – bitbonk Oct 18 '12 at 14:00

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You should be able to accomplish this from the Notifications section of the Settings app, which allows you to set the kind of alerts each app uses:

Notifications in Settings Mail in Notifications

In that panel, each of your mail accounts will be listed separately, and can be configured individually. I have one account, for example, set to not even badge the Mail.app icon, let alone play sound:

List of accounts Settings for mail account that does not notify

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