Disabling Email AccountSubmitted by behr on October 6, 2008 - 6:39pm
When I click on the Get Mail button, Thunderbird checks all the email accounts. I read that I could do this by creating multiple profiles for the regular Thunderbird. Outlook Express has an option to disable checking particular email account. Can I do the same with portable Thunderbird? Thanks. ( categories: )
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Yes
it is possible without creating multiple profiles.
I believe the settings are under extras-accounts-accountname-server settings. There you can specify when it should get the mails.
"What about Love?" - "Overrated. Biochemically no different than eating large quantities of chocolate." - Al Pacino in The Devils Advocate
server settings
and then the advanced button, and there is the checkbox for enabling or disabling the acc.
Otto Sykora
Basel, Switzerland
Thank you for your
Thank you for your suggestion.
For IMAP account, Advanced options does not have a box to disable server.
For POP3 account, there are three options to save the emails. If I choose to have a separate
account folder, "Include this server getting email" is greyed out. So, I can't disable the server.
If I choose save emails under Global Inbox, then disabling server box is available and works.
But, I want to keep the emails under their respective folder.
Is there any better alternative?
Sorry
I only use POP3.
Maybe you can ask over at the MozillaZine forums.
"What about Love?" - "Overrated. Biochemically no different than eating large quantities of chocolate." - Al Pacino in The Devils Advocate
OK thanks. I first thought
OK thanks. I first thought this was a portable issue. It seems this is generic Thunderbird problem.
I will ask there.
Thanks for all the inputs.
so,
>For IMAP account, Advanced options does not have a box to disable server.<
there is nothing to be disabled when using IMAP. Either you click on the folder and see what is inside or you do not click on the repective folder and do not see what is inside. This is the purpose of the IMAP, is allways accessible 'on demand', the mails are ready on the server and will be copied only when you really read them.
>If I choose save emails under Global Inbox, then disabling server box is available and works.
But, I want to keep the emails under their respective folder.<
then you want download them and sort them, so this is what you are offered to do.
So if you do not want to check that particular server, select the middle (global inbox) and uncheck the squere box. Then you can still for fun or no reason tick the top box for placing the mails in separate folder, fur fun or no purpose it is since you do not want use that account at this moment so the whole is slightly theoretical...
Otto Sykora
Basel, Switzerland