Flakey internet causes Mail to forget all cached mail

Whenever I'm on a slow/flakey link, Mail decides that all of my cached mail is invalid, and then wants to download it all (~10,000 emails) again. This is very annoying, since it does it at least once a week whenever I'm traveling.
It's driven my sister to abandon using Mail at all.
And, annoying, but wouldn't be a problem except that Mail keeps redownloading my emails, the "take all accounts offline" button is a toggle, so you can't just frob it and have Mail stop trying to talk to all of the servers.

I waited until Mail dropped my emails again, tried the suggestion.
Whacking com.apple.mail.plist did cause Mail to forget all of my accounts, but thankfully not my rules and signatures.
However, it didn't keep mail from dropping half my cached mail a week later.
Luckily my current link isn't quite as flakey as it could be, despite being in Iraq for the next several months.

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