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Get emails for a specific account, not all of them at the same time

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Hi everyone. I am a Thunderbird user since it was first introduced way back when... I just migrated all my info from my trusty Windows 7 to a new Windows 10 machine and installed the latest version of Tbird. I have several accounts in my Tbird list. None of them are set to automatically download emails from the server. In my previous Tbird version, I used to be able to click on the name of an account and then (at the top of the screen) "Get messages" and it would only get messages for that particular account. Now it downloads the emails for all my accounts which I do not want. How can I change it to only get messages for the account I have clicked on in the accounts list ?

My second question concerns the font and size of the messages in the right hand pane. i.e. when I click on a particular account's "Inbox" on the left, I see a list of the emails received on the right, but the font is too small and is not the font I used to have on my Windows 7 (Arial). I have played around with the Windows settings but it has not changed anything in Tbird. So how do I change the display font and size in Tbird ? (NOT the font used to write emails)

Hi everyone. I am a Thunderbird user since it was first introduced way back when... I just migrated all my info from my trusty Windows 7 to a new Windows 10 machine and installed the latest version of Tbird. I have several accounts in my Tbird list. '''None of them are set to automatically download emails from the server.''' In my previous Tbird version, I used to be able to click on the name of an account and then (at the top of the screen) "Get messages" and it would only get messages for that particular account. Now it downloads the emails for all my accounts which I do not want. How can I change it to only get messages for the account I have clicked on in the accounts list ? My second question concerns the font and size of the messages in the right hand pane. i.e. when I click on a particular account's "Inbox" on the left, I see a list of the emails received on the right, but the font is too small and is not the font I used to have on my Windows 7 (Arial). I have played around with the Windows settings but it has not changed anything in Tbird. So how do I change the display font and size in Tbird ? (NOT the font used to write emails)

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I found the solution. If you click on the name of one of your email accounts in the left hand panel, at the top you will see two clouds - one at the top of your screen and one slightly below it. Click on the lower one and it will only download emails from the account you have clicked on.

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Nice to see you come back and share what you learned ... Thank you

If you also want to NOT have an account fetch emails when you start Thunderbird and NOT fetch emails every n minutes (default set to n = every 10 minutes), then go to (v 115 menus used) Edit -> Accounts Settings -> Server Settings

Scroll down to "Server Settings"

You will see three checkboxes which are checked by default and to change the behaviour of that account UnCheck the actions you do NOT want to happen 

_ Check for new messages at startup
_ Check for new messages every [ n ] minutes
_ Automatically download new messages

Note that if your email provider "Pushes" emails to you, like some providers do with IMAP accounts, these settings may be ignored. You could rty using POP connections if that is the case.