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temporarily disable account

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hspindel
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Suggestion: add a feature to allow Thunderbird to disable checking an account.

I have several Thunderbird accounts. Some of them need to be checked maybe once a month. Would like to disable those until I manually initiate a connection.

Suggestion: add a feature to allow Thunderbird to disable checking an account. I have several Thunderbird accounts. Some of them need to be checked maybe once a month. Would like to disable those until I manually initiate a connection.

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Ed
Ed
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There is a fix planned for that (https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1647632#c6), and you can vote on this idea at (https://connect.mozilla.org/t5/ideas/allow-thunderbird-user-to-enable-disable-an-account-temporarily/idi-p/29194/. Meanwhile, here are some things to try:

- go to TB menu > Account Settings > Account > Server Settings and disable these options: 

 - Check for new messages at startup

 - Check for new messages every X minutes

 - Allow immediate server notification when new messages arrive

 - Synchronization & Storage > Message Synchronizing > 'Keep messages...'
hspindel
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Ed said
There is a fix planned for that (https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1647632#c6), and you can vote on this idea at (https://connect.mozilla.org/t5/ideas/allow-thunderbird-user-to-enable-disable-an-account-temporarily/idi-p/29194/. Meanwhile, here are some things to try: - go to TB menu > Account Settings > Account > Server Settings and disable these options: - Check for new messages at startup - Check for new messages every X minutes - Allow immediate server notification when new messages arrive - Synchronization & Storage > Message Synchronizing > 'Keep messages...'

Thank you for the response. I followed the directions above, but TBird is still checking for mail at the affected servers.

Ed
Ed
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Check to see if your address book and/or calendar are trying to make connections.