I'd like to use my mail app as an outgoing service only.
I recently discovered a trojan in an incoming message and I prefer to read my messages online anyway.
Is there any way to accomplish this?
Regards
/M
Block incoming mail
mail.app
Related Solutions
Go To Mail -> Preferences -> Junk
When junk mail arrives, say: Perform Custom actions
Click on the Advanced button at the bottom, which just turned up to be active.
Then say "Mark as read" in one of your actions:
This mechanism is a feature of the mail protocol that you are using, and isn't a local feature that you can choose to set within Mail. You are likely useing either IMAP or Exchange, the the replication of mail states for things like location, unread/read etc is a part of the normal operation.
I am not at a Mac, so I cannot test for features, but the best you can hope for is a configuration in Mail that will allow you to either change what action marks the mail as read or not (Might be mere selection, might be opening the time specifically, might be viewing the message for more than X seconds etc) or extend the time that it takes for the action to complete (viewd for 5 seconds, or 10, etc).
You can of course simply right click on a read mail and then mark it as unread again.
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Best Answer
I believe the best way is to leave the account enabled in mail.
Then, you can still send messages but it won't automatically get mail any more. Note that you can still click the check mail icon at the top of the window, and that will still initiate a manual Send/Receive.