If you are simply passing email messages through SmarterMail, and don't use the webmail component, you can disable that for your users, then propagate that change to all users on your SmarterMail install. That should allow you to pull emails down however you're doing it, but wouldn't create the actual appointment (even as a tentative) for the user(s) in question in webmail.
Derek Curtis
COO
SmarterTools Inc.
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