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Is there a way to restrict "Get Messages" in Thunderbird

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I use Thunderbird as a very convenient, easily searchable database. Consequently, when I changed email providers last year, I disabled my two old accounts but left them in Thunderbird so I could continue searching them for various information contained in the old emails. All well and good. But whenever I want to get new messages, I can no longer just hit the button. I have to go in and tediously select just the active account. Otherwise it tries to get messages for the two old accounts as well and then hangs before it gets to my active account. Is there a way to change things so that I can hit the Get Messages button and it will only go for the one active account?

I use Thunderbird as a very convenient, easily searchable database. Consequently, when I changed email providers last year, I disabled my two old accounts but left them in Thunderbird so I could continue searching them for various information contained in the old emails. All well and good. But whenever I want to get new messages, I can no longer just hit the button. I have to go in and tediously select just the active account. Otherwise it tries to get messages for the two old accounts as well and then hangs before it gets to my active account. Is there a way to change things so that I can hit the Get Messages button and it will only go for the one active account?

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Don't use email accounts that no longer exist on the server for archiving purposes. Use Local Folders for that instead and organise your mail there however you wish independently of any email account you may have.

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