Why Does Mail Automatically Get My Mail?

I have set the Check For New Mail option to "Manually", and I have unchecked the "Use IDLE command if server supports it". Yet Mail still automatically pops new messages into my Inbox almost immediately after they are sent. Why doesn't "Manually" mean what it says?
I don't want to automatically get any mail, because then I will stop what I am doing and go read it. And I don't want to shut down Mail, because I use existing messages for reference and To Do tasks. Please help?

Taking the accounts offline would almost work, except I'd like to be able to send stuff and have it go out at once.
Playing with it some more, I'm starting to get some things figured out. I'm using the MailTags plugin. I had it set to save the tags to the server, which was triggering incoming messages to come in whenever I changed a tag. I turned that off (I do kind of need the tags on the server unfortunately), and now that behavior has stopped.
The only other thing left that is triggering it to grab new mail is if I delete a message. Delete a message, new mail comes in. So it seems that any action that moves or changes a message on the server causes Mail to get new messages. Is that a bug, or an IMAP limitation?
Thanks for your help.

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