Re: Remove Thunderbird email account

On 06/27/16 02:03 PM, Barbara wrote:
> 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?
>

Should be fine, delete the corresponding msf file as well. Perhaps the 
parent one as well and as Lars said, make a backup first.
You also should leave TB running for a while for the folders to get 
re-indexed, you can look at the activity monitor under Tools to see the 
progress.
Dave