<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0 TRANSITIONAL//EN"> <HTML> <HEAD> <META HTTP-EQUIV="Content-Type" CONTENT="text/html; CHARSET=UTF-8"> <META NAME="GENERATOR" CONTENT="GtkHTML/4.2.2"> </HEAD> <BODY> Just done a quick google, and it doesn't seem as easy as it should be, but have a look at the following link ( I have copied the 2 most relevant post below as well ). <A HREF="http://forums.mozillazine.org/viewtopic.php?t=635510">http://forums.mozillazine.org/viewtopic.php?t=635510</A> <A HREF="http://forums.mozillazine.org/viewtopic.php?p=6880695&sid=df697f961afbf8740149f5d3c339906a#p6880695"><IMG SRC="http://forums.mozillazine.org/styles/prosilver/imageset/icon_post_target.gif" WIDTH="11" HEIGHT="9" ALIGN="bottom" ALT="Post"></A> Posted July 5th, 2009, 5:50 pm There are a few possibilities to do what you want. 1. The "Include this server when downloading messages" (translated from French) is found under: Tools > Account Settings > (the account) > Server Parameters > Advanced However, it appears only when you ask the messages to be saved in the Global account. Other possibilities... 2. Of course, disable all other automatic harvesting techniques (check at startup, every XX minutes, automatically...) 3. If you don't use a global account, download messages manually only from the account(s) you want to use. For instance, don't download (first icon on the left) from your Office account during the weekend. 4. If you have saved your password, "unsave" it. Go to: Tools > Options (or Preferences?) > Confidentiality (4th icon) > Passwords then click on Modify archived passwords Then remove the password for the account you don't want to use anymore. At that point, when you click on "Download All Messages", it won't download messages from accounts that don't have an archived password. Michel Gagnon Guest <DL> Guest </DL> <A HREF="http://forums.mozillazine.org/viewtopic.php?p=7107515&sid=df697f961afbf8740149f5d3c339906a#p7107515"><IMG SRC="http://forums.mozillazine.org/styles/prosilver/imageset/icon_post_target.gif" WIDTH="11" HEIGHT="9" ALIGN="bottom" ALT="Post"></A> Posted July 30th, 2009, 12:50 pm Here's how to maintain an account in Thunderbird, but "disable" it so that it does not fetch messages when you click "Get Mail" (or when mail is retrieved at startup or periodically): Tools >> Options >> Advanced >> Config Editor... In the Filter bar, enter "server.server". Thunderbird apparently stores properties for each account under config items that have names like "server.server1", "server.server2", etc. So filtering on "server.server" will show you ALL of your accounts. In the list, look for an item named something similar to this: mail.server.serverX.name ...where X above is actually a number (1,2,3,...), depending on how many accounts you have. ...now browse through the list and look at the values of the items named "mail.server.serverX.name"...find the value name that corresponds to the email account you want to disable. For example, if you discover that "mail.server.server6.name" has the email address for the account you want to disable, then... ...in the list, look for (or filter) "mail.server.server6.defer_get_new_mail" ... set this to false. Thunderbird will no longer check that account for email. This is obscure...but it looks like it works. -----Original Message----- Subject: Checking Mail. TB Ver 17.0.5 Date: Sun, 30 Mar 2014 19:26:00 +1100 <PRE> This is about using one action to check all selected mail accounts. In the past I have simply pressed Shift-F5 or, clicked on the Get Mail icon to check all accounts for mail. Now this is not so convenient. Now I have three accounts that I wish to keep (i.e. not delete), but not to check for mail or attempt to check for mail this month. In the past I remember having the capability to indicate via a check box whether or not a particular account would be checked in response to the above Shift-F5 or mouse click. Today I wish to unckeck those three accounts, so as not to attempt collecting mail, but I cannot find the feature. Has the feature disappeared? Did I see it in perhaps an earlier version of TB? Help appreciated GT </PRE> </BODY> </HTML>