Stop Checking Mail Account

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Stop Checking Mail Account

I recently had to stop using one of my email addresses -- and so I want Mail to stop checking that account.

But I don't want to lose the existing emails. I'd like them to continue to show up in my In Box and Sent Mail folders.

Does anybody know if this is possible? If I disable the account, the existing mail disappears. If I deselect "Include when automatically checking for new mail," mail is still checked when I hit "Get Mail" -- and I still get an error icon next to the In Box folder.

Anybody have any suggestions? Do I have to move all the mail to another "on my mac" folder?

Thanks for any light anybody can shed --

Steve

15, Mac OS X (10.6.8)

Posted on May 16, 2012 8:16 AM

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Answer 1

varjak paw

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May 16, 2012 8:21 AM in response to Steve Cohen4

Right-click (or control-click) on the Inbox for the account and select "Take [account] Offline". That should do the trick.

Regards.

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Answer 2

Steve Cohen4 Author

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May 16, 2012 2:01 PM in response to varjak paw

Thanks -- good idea.

But I'm still seeing the little error icon (triangle with exclamation mark in it) next to the In Box. If I click it, the account goes back online. But the error never goes away. This means that I can never tell when I really have a connection error -- because the error condition is always present.

Any idea?

Thanks again,

Steve

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