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December 27th, 2004 at 4:04 am
The choice of outgoing SMTP server is set under Edit/Properties/Outgoing Server(SMTP) - it’s the last entry in the left column of the Properties dialog.
If you click the Advanced button, you can set up multiple SMTP servers to choose from.
You can change the “From” value (without changing SMTP servers) when you compose a message by clicking the drop-down on the From field.
Each account has Properties settings (under the Server Settings entry) for “Check for new messages at startup”, “Check for new messages every x minutes”, and “Automatically download new messages”. Just uncheck whichever actions you don’t want.
December 27th, 2004 at 5:25 am
Thanks Doug.
March 20th, 2005 at 10:40 am
There is a really good thunderbird tutorial at
http://www.ycgn.org/tutorial/thunderbird-pop-account.html
May 16th, 2005 at 3:43 am
Thunderbird hasn’t a box for disabling an account. Maybe in next release.