Mail: Stop checking one account

[Nermal]

Hi all,

I have three accounts set up in Mail and one is being overrun with spam (and the built-in spam filter is proving utterly ineffective). I've provided a newer address to the few legitimate senders and I no longer want to check this mailbox for any new messages.

In Preferences > Accounts > Advanced tab, I've deselected "Include when automatically checking for new messages" but I still get a notification and badge when a new message comes in. What am I missing here?

I've also tried turning off "Enable this account" in the Account Information tab, but that makes the mailbox disappear entirely; I'd like to still be able to read existing messages but just don't want to receive new ones.

Help!

 

[rottnjohn]

Mark the account "offline" (Mailbox -> Online Status -> Take xxx offline)

 

[Nermal]

Thanks! That appears to work (although I can't say for sure until I actually get another message) but it puts three "zap" icons in the sidebar; is there any way to hide those?

 

[Nermal]

Mark the account "offline" (Mailbox -> Online Status -> Take xxx offline)

Well, that worked for a couple of days, but I just opened up Mail and got 20 new spams because Mail had decided to bring the account online again. Argh!

Edit: Here we are, the following morning, and the account's enabled itself again.

 

[Nermal]

For what it's worth, I updated to 10.11 yesterday and deselecting "Include when automatically checking for new messages" still does nothing, and the account still brings itself back online without instruction to do so.