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Richard wrote about this side issue:
> contrary to you, when setting up a new mailbox account, messages are download by default especially as the account is being setup as soon as I click advanced settings and populated prior I can reach accounts advance settings to disable the "Keep..." option which seems to modify folder settings immediately but only effectively apply after reboot of TB (if you don't reboot TB keep downloading messages). I can see msg being downloaded despite folder sync settings set not to keep copy of message on the computer - but likely a separate issue to this bug or fix.

Yes, I see the same problem when I setup the first IMAP account in a new profile. The reason I wasn't seeing it before was because I typically setup new accounts in an existing profile. When you add a new account to an existing profile you have to be selected to some existing folder or account. So when you add a new account, the selection point stays where it is and the Inbox of the newly added account is not automatically selected. This allows you choose "advanced" setting to change the settings on the new account before any URL occurs for that account so you can turn off offline store or do other changes before the default settings start being used.

When you add a new profile, TB automatically prompts for adding a new account. You add the new account and when you select "advanced" setting to change the setting, the selection goes to Inbox automatically of this first new account causing the folder discovery and auto-sync to occur which starts downloading full messages which is the default setting and your changes to disable offline store  is not seen at this time. After a TB restart it is seen but now you probably have a lot of mbox  or maildir files for folders that you really don't want and have to clean up somehow.

This is only an issue on the first IMAP account of a new profile but a possible workaround is this (pending a real fix):

1. Create a new profile
2. Enter info for a "fake" account, e.g.,
   a) Full Name: abc
   b) Email addr: abc@abc.abc
   c) Password: abc
3. Continue
4. Configure manually
5. Advanced config
6. Account actions -> Add mail account ...
7. Add your real account but select "Manual config" and then "Advanced config" when it appears (don't click Done/Complete)
8. Now fix up any setting, e.g., "Don't keep messages locally"
9. Select the Inbox tab
10. Note that abc account Inbox is selected and only Inbox is present on your new real account
11. Select Inbox on your new real account
12. First connection to new real account occurs and respects the setting you made.
13. Remove the "fake" account.

Richard wrote about this side issue:
> contrary to you, when setting up a new mailbox account, messages are download by default especially as the account is being setup as soon as I click advanced settings and populated prior I can reach accounts advance settings to disable the "Keep..." option which seems to modify folder settings immediately but only effectively apply after reboot of TB (if you don't reboot TB keep downloading messages). I can see msg being downloaded despite folder sync settings set not to keep copy of message on the computer - but likely a separate issue to this bug or fix.

Yes, I see the same problem when I setup the first IMAP account in a new profile. The reason I wasn't seeing it before was because I typically setup new accounts in an existing profile. When you add a new account to an existing profile you have to be selected to some existing folder or account. So when you add a new account, the selection point stays where it is and the Inbox of the newly added account is not automatically selected. This allows you choose "advanced" setting to change the settings on the new account before any URL occurs for that account so you can turn off offline store or do other changes before the default settings start being used.

When you add a new profile, TB automatically prompts for adding a new account. You add the new account and when you select "advanced" setting to change the setting, the selection goes to Inbox automatically of this first new account causing the folder discovery and auto-sync to occur which starts downloading full messages which is the default setting and your changes to disable offline store  is not seen at this time. After a TB restart it is seen but now you probably have a lot of mbox  or maildir files for folders that you really don't want and have to clean up somehow.

This is only an issue on the first IMAP account of a new profile but a possible workaround is this (pending a real fix):

1. Create a new profile
2. Enter info for a "fake" account, e.g.,
   a) Full Name: abc
   b) Email addr: abc@abc.abc
   c) Password: abc
3. Continue
4. Configure manually
5. Advanced config
6. Account actions -> Add mail account ...
7. Add your real account but select "Manual config" and then "Advanced config" when it appears (don't click Done/Complete)
8. Now fix up any setting, e.g., "Don't keep messages locally"
9. Select the Inbox tab
10. Note that abc account Inbox is selected and only Inbox is present on your new real account
11. Select Inbox on your new real account
12. First connection to new real account occurs and respects the setting you made.
13. Remove the "fake" account.

I've submitted a new bug for this here: bug 1723324