Re: Remove Thunderbird email account

Am 27.06.16 um 23.03 schrieb Barbara:
> I need to delete a no longer needed email account, plus all email for that
> account from Thunderbird.
>
> Thinking I knew what I was doing, (ha).. I went into account settings,
> highlighted the account, and using the little "Account Actions" down arrow,
> chose "REMOVE ACCOUNT"
>
> It went away alright, but the mail is still there on my computer and in my
> profile under the "MAIL" directory.  For those who like details that's:
> Thunderbird > Profiles > Profilename > Mail, where the unwanted account has it's
> own folder holding all mail ever sent or received.  There are also three other
> account folders I want to keep.
>
> Is it OK to just delete that unwanted account folder without messing up my
> profile?
>
I have done so in the past without a problem (in my case that was some 
newsgroup accounts). But you might want to backup the whole profile tree 
just in case.

Lars