I have two accounts, a gmail one and a school email address. I want to be able to send emails from my school address and gmail, but receive only from the gmail one (the gmail and school email accounts are synced together so I don't want to get duplicates). is there any way to make only the receive section of an account offline in Mail.app? I'm using OS X 10.9 Mavericks, if that helps. I already turned off automatic receiving for my school email, but if I hit "get mail" all the email from that account gets fetched anyway.
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Well, in Mail 4.5 (on Snow Leopard) it's easy: add a condition "Message is in Mailbox" to your smart mailbox's filter. In my case, that "Gmail" mailbox is a sub-box of the (unified) Inbox.
There is an option within the preferences of Mail.app.
Go to the "Accounts" tab, and select the email account, and under Account Information, you can set the outgoing mail server to None.
You must also enable Use only this server.
When sending a message from that account, you will now get a message asking you to choose a different outgoing mail server, with the option of cancelling the send.
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Set up a new empty email box (perhaps with server side quota or rules to delete all mail immediately upon receipt).
Enter those credentials as a new account in Mail.app and end the sending credentials and server for this shell account.
Now you can send from the account you want and have no emails coming in.