Setting up Mail to send only (not receive)

Hello all,
I currently use Mail to send/receive to/from my Gmail account, and Entourage for my work (MS Exchange).
I want to use iWork 09 and the functionality of sharing documents using iWork.com.
The email addresses that iWork uses (for notifications to someone you want to share a document with) comes from Mail. So if you have multiple accounts on Mail, you can choose which one the email will appear from.
Obviously for work documents, the emails need to come from my work email, not my personal Gmail address.
So is there a way to set up an account (using POP3 or IMAP) so that it ONLY sends, and does not receive email?
It is straightforward to set up a fully functional POP3 or IMAP account for my work email using Mail, but with over 2GB of mail on my Exchange account, I don't want to duplicate my whole Entourage emails...
Thus my need to be able to _send only_....
Any pointers appreciated.

Hey Steven,
Sorry for digging back in the archives for this one, but a while ago you solved the problem of a missing iCal alarm clock with the following solution...
Thank you. This has been bugging me for far too long, but you finally made me look to see what was wrong. Here's what I did that has fixed it on my machine.
(I probably should have quit iCal first, but forgot.)
1) Navigate to iCal in your Applications folder.
2) CTRL-Click on the iCal icon in the Applications folder.
3) Select Show Package Contents
4) Double click on the Contents folder
5) Double Click on the Resources folder
6) Double click on the icon for alarmclock.mov
A dialog box came up telling me that the movie requires Adobe Flash to play, which is disabled in QuickTime, and allowed me to enable it. I also had to select 'apply to all movies'
7) Start iCal and test it. I had to restart iCal a couple of times, but that's probably related to my not remembering to quit the application before I started messing with its guts, and my failure to apply the change to all QuickTime movies.
Good luck
srb
Well I tried this without success... QuickTime opens alarmclock.mov, but it's still just a black square. Hope you may be able to help on this one... again!
Cheers!

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