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How to tell Thunderbird to stop trying to connect to a server (without removing the address) (sh.itjust.works)

submitted 2 weeks ago by [email protected] to c/thunderbird

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I have several mailing accounts configured on Thunderbird, two of which no longer exist (from institutions of which I'm no longer a member). I don't wish to delete these, as they can still come handy when finding old messages or adresses of old contacts. I just edited the settings to stop fetching messages, but I still get notifications saying Thunderbird failed to connect to the server. It's a very minor inconvenience, but I'd rather Thunderbird not waste ressources trying to connect to them every time.

So, how's the standard way to deal with accounts that no longer exist but of which you'd rather keep the already existing mails and data?

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[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

I would create a new folder for each account in the "Local folders" pseudo account, and move the mails there. Thunderbird copies the messages with sender and all metadata, no data would be lost. Than just remove the old accounts.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 weeks ago

Good idea thanks!

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Did you disable both fetching settings? yes there's two, one is for "first time" and the other is for "every X minutes" I think.

I'm unsure if it would work but, under the same principle as the pihole, I'm wondering if setting the account's server domain to localhost would help.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 weeks ago

Yeah, I did disable that. I'll try the 'localhost' trick, thanks!