How to create a “No Mail” Account in Outlook

Many users prefer using another email client for email but want to use Outlook for calendar and tasks. To avoid problems, such as Outlook downloading mail and deleting it from your mail server, it’s generally better to create a “no mail” profile.

In some older versions of Outlook you could select ‘No mail” when creating the profile. In Outlook 2003 and 2007, you need to step through the profile creation and cancel it, instead of adding email account information.

Go to Control Panel, Mail to open the Mail profile applet

1. Click on Show Profiles



2. Click Add and enter a name for your new profile.
3. When the Add New Account screen comes up to enter your email account information, click Cancel.
   
4. A dialog comes up that asks “If you want to create a profile with no e-mail accounts, click OK. If you do not want to create a profile at all, click Cancel.
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5. Click Cancel and exit the new profile dialog.
    

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This article is filed under Beginner, Email Accounts.
Last reviewed on Dec 8, 2011