I have a large number of POP3 email accounts.  Most of them I use very rarely.

When I click 'Send/Receive', evolution logs into all of the accounts, only to find most of them are empty.

I would like to be able to exclude most of the account from the 'Send/Receive' action, so evolution doesn't have to keep logging into those accounts.

I see 2 ways of doing this at the moment, neither of which is satisfactory:

1)  disable the account (preferences -> select account -> disable)

This isn't satisfactory because I can't send mail from a disabled account.  I would like to still be able to send mail.  All I want is to disable the checking for new mail on these accounts.

2)  edit the account settings and set the 'receiving mail' -> 'server type' to none

This is fine - I can still send mail from that account, and Send/Receive no longer logs into the account.  However, when I wish to check the account for new messages, which I do occasionally, I have to enter all the POP server information again.  Setting the server type to 'none' and back to 'POP' makes evolution forget the POP server name, the user name, password, authentication method, etc.

I believe Outlook has a per-account checkbox called something like "exclude this account from send/receive" or some such.

I'd like something similar in Evolution.