Avatar for Username

Search Support

Avoid support scams. We will never ask you to call or text a phone number or share personal information. Please report suspicious activity using the “Report Abuse” option.

Learn More

This thread was archived. Please ask a new question if you need help.

too many email accounts

  • 1 reply
  • 1 has this problem
  • 39 views
  • Last reply by sfhowes

seren1tylaw
seren1tylaw
more options

I have 8 email accounts in Thunderbird. One of the accounts is used for all of my listservs and has a lot of rules to move the emails into various subjects. It is huge and takes a lot of resources. It slows down Thunderbird considerably. I would like to move that entire account out. Is it possible to have 2 versions of Thunderbird on my computer so that I have the large account in one and the smaller 7 remain in my current version? Or can I move the entire account, including all of the subfolders and existing messages into a new email program? Any suggestions?

I have 8 email accounts in Thunderbird. One of the accounts is used for all of my listservs and has a lot of rules to move the emails into various subjects. It is huge and takes a lot of resources. It slows down Thunderbird considerably. I would like to move that entire account out. Is it possible to have 2 versions of Thunderbird on my computer so that I have the large account in one and the smaller 7 remain in my current version? Or can I move the entire account, including all of the subfolders and existing messages into a new email program? Any suggestions?

All Replies (1)

sfhowes
sfhowes
  • Top 10 Contributor
more options

I would create a new profile and add the listserv account, copy its mail from the current profile, then remove the account from the original profile. Use Profile Manager to create and launch the profiles, or install the ProfileSwitcher add-on in both profiles.

To start Profile Manager, close TB, Winkey+R, type thunderbird.exe -p