[MlMt] How can I tell MM to NOT retrieve mail?

[Thomas Koschate]

—
=======================================================
Thomas Koschate                              +1 416.716.5949
koschate at omasko.com

> On May 27, 2021, at 15:43, Bill Cole <mmlist-20120120 at billmail.scconsult.com> wrote:
> 
> On 2021-05-27 at 04:37:18 UTC-0400 (Thu, 27 May 2021 10:37:18 +0200)
> Benny Kjær Nielsen <mailmate at lists.freron.com>
> is rumored to have said:
> 
>>> On 26 May 2021, at 22:25, Jo wrote:
>>> 
>>> My husband is a contractor, and I'm the one who does the QuickBooks stuff for him, which includes emailing invoices and estimates. I use his email for this. But I don't want to RECEIVE his email.
>> 
>> That's a bit unusual, but read on below.
>> 
>>> I have his account set to synchronize manually, but it still seems to snag them. Is it because I occasionally click on my general 'inbox' folder?
>> 
>> Yes, manually just means that MailMate won't fetch emails unless you somehow interact with the mailbox (selecting it, moving emails to it, etc.).
>> 
>>> How can I fix it such that it won't receive?
>> 
>> You can take the INBOX of the account specifically offline using “Mailbox ▸ Take Offline”. Or you can take the entire account offline, but then your sent emails won't be uploaded to the “Sent Messages” mailbox of the account.
>> 
>> But note that it can be a bit hard to see what's going on if some mailboxes are offline, e.g., if you move something from/to an offline mailbox within the account then MailMate cannot synchronize this move with the server, but it'll still look like it was moved in MailMate.
> 
> Another solution is to unsubscribe from everything except the "Sent" mailbox.
> 
> MM supports a client-side subscription list so you don't interfere with what the server says is subscribed. Edit IMAP Account->Edit Subscriptions... Check "Ignore server subscription state for private namespaces" and uncheck everything in the "Client" column that you don't ever want to see.
> 
> 
> -- 
> Bill Cole
> bill at scconsult.com or billcole at apache.org
> (AKA @grumpybozo and many *@billmail.scconsult.com addresses)
> Not Currently Available For Hire
> _______________________________________________
> mailmate mailing list
> mailmate at lists.freron.com
> https://lists.freron.com/listinfo/mailmate
-------------- next part --------------
An HTML attachment was scrubbed...
URL: <http://lists.freron.com/pipermail/mailmate/attachments/20210601/fc81081c/attachment.htm>