Hi terryhollett, The Thunderbird Support forum is over here -

Thunderbird Support https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/products/thunderbird

I was able to find this thread -

How can I suspend an account? https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/questions/1199736

(not certain if it is still useful)

Moving thread to Thunderbird support.

Thank you for the replies. I found the solution here that i was looking for. https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/questions/1354965

The procedure: In Thunderbird click on the hamburger menu or three stacked lines in the top right-hand corner. Then click on Preferences. Then in the search bar type config. Then when it displays click on the Config Editor button. You'll get a warning: Changing these preferences can impact Thunderbird performance or security. In the search bar, copy and paste or type the following:

rss.disable_feeds_on_update_failure

By default it is set as true. Clicking on the symbol at the end switches it to false. No restart required.