How do I delete old or unwanted addresses that are saved?
have email addresses no longer needed that would like to delete from my account
Alle antwurden (5)
Your question is a little ambiguous.
Do you want to delete an entry from your Address Book?
Or do you want to delete an email account you no longer use?
If you delete an account in Thunderbird, its folders will vanish, along with all the messages in them. If you have messages you want to keep, move them to Local Folders or another account first.
Now, open Account Settings. Select the unwanted account. Go down to the bottom of the pane, and click the button there. It is usually called Account Actions, but unfortunately its name changes according to what you last did with it.
This button will produce a drop-down menu, with an option to Remove Account. You can't remove the default account, so if the account you want to delete is set as the default, you'll need to set another account as default first. Note also that you are not allowed to delete the Local Folders account.
tried your suggestion w/o success, to clarify my question looking to delete unwanted or old addresses from the address book, has nothing to do with actual emails
This is what's supposed to happen:
- Open the address book.
- Find a Contact you no longer want.
- Delete it using the toolbar "delete" button.
I think it's better to open the particular address book that holds the Contact (for example Personal Address Book, Collected Addresses) rather than try to do it from the composite All Address Books item.
If you're using ldap or the OSX native address book (mac users only), this won't work because you have read-only access to those address books and so Thunderbird cannot edit them. You have to go directly to that address book rather than via Thunderbird.
probably should have told you I'm a techno moron, appears address book is buried somewhere in operating system but I can't find it & don't like to fool around w/settings etc. using a windows 8 system
The address book in Thunderbird is on its menus (look under "Tools"), on its toolbar and it can be made to appear using ctrl+shift+b.
Not what I'd call "buried somewhere in operating system".