Additional accounts in Mail

I want to have several additional accounts in Mail, but I don't want these extra accounts to check mail when I do the check mail command. I've added one account and even though i have the "Include when automatically checking for new mail" option OFF, it still checks as evidenced in the Activity Viewer. I have several e-mail addresses that come to my main POP account. In Mail I want to be able to have as a return address these particular accounts. For example, I have several .Mac e-mail addresses, but all my .Mac mail is forwarded to my main ISP. When I want to send e-mail, I sometimes use one of these extra e-mails as my return address.
How can I set up these extra accounts and not have them check? Each time I set one up it wants POP or IMAP or Exchange or .Mac info including a mail server out.

The "Include when automatically checking for new mail" option will still allow mail to check the account if you manually hit the "Get Mail" button.
If all you want to be able to do is have a return address when sending mail, and it doesn't matter what the outgoing server really is, you don't need to set up multiple accounts. In the account setup pref pane, just add the other addresses in the email address field, ie:
[email protected], [email protected], [email protected]
Then when you compose mail the "account" field will have a pull down menu allowing you to choose the "From" address you want.
Only set up a new accoutn if you need to check or send mail from a different server, but ifa ll you mail is forwarded to one ISP there is no need.

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