How to silence Apple Mail App

Hi,
one of the features I love about my Mac compared to the former Windows-**** is the fact that it allows me to work undisturbed.
With the new mail app this kind of changed.
I have one account which I can only access from within my company network or if I startup VPN. Under Snow Leopard I would simply click on the reconnect icon to have mail reestablish the connection to our company's mailserver and when I was done I would disconnect from the VPN again and in apple mail simply the connection would be marked as being unavailable.
The latter unfortunately does not seem to work under Lion. Whenever I disconnect from VPN Mail starts bragging me to enter my password (since it cannot connect to the server...). This goes on two to three times and after cancelling the attempts to enter my password again it simply shows the account as disconnect (like under Snow Leopard).
Has anyone an idea how I could get Lion's mail app to just silently drop the connection instead of asking me?
Regards,
equinox

Hi, in the preferences of Mail.app unchecking "Include when automatically checking for new messages" should do the trick, I suppose: Preferences>Accounts>Highlight the account in question>Advanced

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