Menu Mail —> Preferences... —> Click on the Accounts button at upper left if it's not already in the Accounts pane. At teh bottom switch the pop up menu after "Check for new mail:" to "Manually". k On Thursday, January 9, 2003, at 10:18 AM, Meirion Roscoe wrote: > I download all my cube list mails and pore through them avidly whilst > offline. The only snag is, is that the bloody thing keeps trying to > reconnect all the time(distracting me massively) which is why I have > taken this opportunity whilst back online (again) to mail for help. I > have tried > > Clicking the 'go offline' button in the mail 'mailbox' ddm > unticking the 'connect automatically when needed' button in PPP > preferences > > and yet it still does it. Slightly OT I know but Mac help is no > bloody good in Jaguar as that tries to connect itself online as well > and takes an age - to no avail. > > TIA > > Rossi