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sending with gmail account

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mfpereyra83
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Hi, I want to set up a gmail account in thunderbird but only to send email. I do not want to receive email from that account. Is that possible? I used to be able to do this by just writing wrong the incoming server settings. But now if I do that it won't be able to get connected. In windows I know this is possible in Outlook because there is an option to not synchronize email, only check for new email if I do it manually, but I am using Mac and would really prefer to keep using thunderbird. Thank you very much for any help you can give me!

Hi, I want to set up a gmail account in thunderbird but only to send email. I do not want to receive email from that account. Is that possible? I used to be able to do this by just writing wrong the incoming server settings. But now if I do that it won't be able to get connected. In windows I know this is possible in Outlook because there is an option to not synchronize email, only check for new email if I do it manually, but I am using Mac and would really prefer to keep using thunderbird. Thank you very much for any help you can give me!

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david
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You might consider changing settings in Gmail, such as set a filter to immediately delete all incoming mail and also set the option to not make inbox available to an email client.

mfpereyra83
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Thanks for your reply. I cant delete all email because eventually I need to read it. Can't seem to find the option in gmail not make inbox available to an email client. Any help? Or I guess I have to ask them... Although it's a great idea, I'll try to figure that one out. Any other ideas? Thanks!

Matt
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Go to the outgoing server (SMTP) and add your GMail outgoing server. You will need to have some sort of incoming account, but as you say you can create a dodgy config for that. Just click the configure manually button in the new account wizard to get out of the verification loop.