[Users] Fully disabling an account without removing it

[Dave Howorth]

On Sat, 20 Jun 2020 12:39:18 -0400
"Michael A. Yetto" <myetto at gmail.com> wrote:

> On Sat, 20 Jun 2020 16:34:38 +0200
> symphorien_claws at xlumurb.eu writes, and having writ moves on:
> 
> > Hello,
> > 
> > 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.
> > 
> > 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. However, regularly scheduled email checks
> > still try to talk to A, and I get an error popup every 10 minutes.
> > 
> > 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.
> > 
> > Thanks  
> 
> Under Configuration / Preferences / Receiving clear the boxes for
> Automatic Checking. This deals with all accounts.
> 
> Then set the checking interval for each account individually under
> Configuration / Edit accounts.

I'm just curious. Is the second part version dependent? I don't see any
such checking interval options on 3.16.0?

> Mike Yetto