MacOS – How to stop emails ‘pushing’ to Apple Mail (macOS Sierra)

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I don't want Mail to automatically download new mail. I want to manually do this by choosing Mailbox > Get All New Mail.

I have tried setting the preference 'Check for new messages: Manually' in Preferences > General, thinking this would solve the issue. But email still pushes to my iCloud account!

Does anyone know how to change this behaviour so new mail only delivers when I ask the app to fetch it?

Thanks!

Andy

Best Answer

According to this topic: Disable the Push IMAP (IDLE) email in macOS Sierra, Apple has removed that option.