Thunderbird Offline Settings

Six6siX · 24 Jul 2007 at 11:42

Hi,

I have several email accounts set up on Thunderbird at the moment, was wondering if it is possible to set one account to work in offline mode and leave the rest as normal?

Cheers.

MarcLister · 24 Jul 2007 at 12:13

Tools>Account settings>Offline and Disk space?

Can do this for each email account.

Six6siX · 24 Jul 2007 at 12:16

MarcLister said:
Tools>Account settings>Offline and Disk space?

Can do this for each email account.

Yeah I looked at that but I can't find anything that suggest offline operation. It's only things like "IF in offline mode...do this"

To get into offline mode you have to go to File>Offline>Work Offline, don't you? But that puts all accounts into offline mode...

MarcLister · 24 Jul 2007 at 12:20

Ah right I see what you mean now.

You could still do what I suggested for one email account. Then go offline. So one account would be available to you. Not exactly what you want but fairly close.

Six6siX · 24 Jul 2007 at 14:45

I think I've made it work...sorta.

I set it not to query the server at the set intervals and startup for that particular account...seems to be working...

Thanks anyway

MarcLister · 24 Jul 2007 at 14:46

Ah right, so you've just unticked Check for mail at startup and every X minutes?

Six6siX · 24 Jul 2007 at 14:48

Yep, pretty much.

Basically it was my old Uni account which had expired but I still wanted to access the messages saved in thunderbird. It kept prompting me for a user name every time it looked for messages so I thought offline mode would prevent that.

This way seems a bit more straightforward...

MarcLister · 24 Jul 2007 at 14:49

Ah right yes. That makes sense. So you must be downloading your emails to PC then? POP3?

Six6siX · 24 Jul 2007 at 14:51

Yes, they are downloaded and saved in Thunderbird. The uni one is IMAP, but the other accounts I have are POP3.

MarcLister · 24 Jul 2007 at 14:52

K. So why do you still want yer Uni emails then? :confused:

PinkPig · 24 Jul 2007 at 18:20

MarcLister said:
K. So why do you still want yer Uni emails then?

Well I know I'll want to keep a backup when I leave - it's 3 or more years of my life including plenty of pretty personal stuff.

MarcLister · 24 Jul 2007 at 18:22

PinkPig said:
Well I know I'll want to keep a backup when I leave - it's 3 or more years of my life including plenty of pretty personal stuff.

Right OK. I don't use my Uni email for private/personal stuff.