[Users] Fully disabling an account without removing it

[symphorien_claws at xlumurb.eu]

Le Sat, 20 Jun 2020 17:32:18 +0200,
wwp <subscript at free.fr> a écrit :

> Hello,
> 
> 
> On Sat, 20 Jun 2020 16:34:38 +0200 symphorien_claws at xlumurb.eu wrote:
> 
> > I have two IMAP accounts A and B. The server of A is currently
> > down, and will stay like this for another few weeks. I also have
> > ticked the "automatically check for new messages every 10 minutes"
> > option. The consequence is that every 10 minutes I get an error
> > message in a popup telling me that connection to A failed.
> 
> That's expected.
> 
>  
> > I would like to still check for new mail on B every 10 minutes but
> > without the annoying popup. So I unchecked the "G" checkbox for A in
> > the list of accounts in the "Configuration>Edit accounts" dialog.
> > Then clicking on the "manual check for emails" button does stop
> > retrieving email from A.
> 
> That's expected.
> 
> 
> > However, regularly scheduled email checks still try to talk to A,
> > and I get an error popup every 10 minutes.
> 
> Does any filtering or processing rule implied at B account (automated)
> checking copy or move mails to any folder that belongs to the A
> account?
> 


I have no filters, pre-processing or post-processing rules at all. I do
everything with sieve, so server-side.

> 
> > Is there a way to have claws-mail completely stop talking to this
> > email server without removing the account? I'll reuse it in the
> > future.
> 
> You did the right thing. Unless you are not reporting correctly what
> you see or didn't do what you are reporting, I suspect an IMAP action
> that is done during the automatic retrieval and that implies this A
> account indirectly.


Any way to obtain a log which could indicate me the problem?

I also checked that the problem still happens if I make B the default
account instead of A.
> 
> 
> Regards,
>