[Feature Request] Read-only accounts / Make SMTP optional about mailspring HOT 7 CLOSED

Hey @m0n1s - there aren't currently plans to support this — could you elaborate on your email setup? Are there mail providers that offer read-only IMAP accounts without SMTP? Are you using an IMAP server you deployed yourself?

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Well, I have an specific use case where that would fit, @bengotow. My university IT department decided, instead of improving availability of our email service, to block every and all SMTP auth attempts that do not come from localhost (on their end.).

They did so in an attempt to block spam abuse in only letting their own webmail client authenticate and send emails. While effective, that's a horribly handicapped solution IMHO. However, that's how they work. That has also been a stepping stone in using email clients since every client will try/force to SMTP auth and others even won't add/work with a read only account.

So far the only ones that has been working (but that nags me a lot to the point I turned it off.) are Apple Mail, Thunderbird and the native iOS mail client. Claws should also work considering how it is designed. Not familiar with Windows but I guess MS Outlook would work too.

Only the big, industry standard ones seems to support some sort of "read only" IMAP accounts, although not quite; as adding a "read only" account is usually not straightforward and even looks more like a workaround rather than a feature on those clients.

While somewhat uncommon (public/free providers don't work in such way, only private/paid ones with specific scenarios.) it is a valid point and it should probably be considered a feature in Mailspring. That would make it awesome for all my email.

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Hello @bengotow,
I would like to use mailspring as my all-in-one mailclient but my company's info@.... account is, just like @nmindz 's account, restricted to receiving-only.
For now it is totally ok if there would be a "Just ignore the not working SMTP-Settings"-Checkbox even if mailspring will throw some error-modals 😅

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@bengotow in my case I just wanna have an imap archive...
no SMTP for such account... as Evolution provides

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I'm also intersted in this feature. We have an EMail account for alert messages from our production environment. And it's a receive-only.

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This issue has been mentioned on Mailspring Community. There might be relevant details there:

https://community.getmailspring.com/t/read-only-accounts-make-smtp-optional/134/1

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