987462 - Disable single email account

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 689067

(Thunderbird :: Account Manager, enhancement)

Description

[swalderich]

User Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; WOW64; rv:27.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/27.0 (Beta/Release)
Build ID: 20140212131424

Steps to reproduce:

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Actual results:

Enhancement suggestion


Expected results:

A simple way to "disable" a single email account would be great. In an optimal way a "disabled" account should behave exactly like a normal account in offline mode. And it should be visible that the account is disabled.
Many users want to temporarily disable single accounts for very different reasons. The important thing is that there is no network traffic (for example because it's temporarily not available) and all the account's settings are preserved. If it is possible the locally stored emails should still be accessible.

(There are work-arounds for POP3 accounts but there is no satisfying solution for IMAP.)

Comment 1

[Wayne Mery (:wsmwk)]

Does bug 689067 describe your issue? 
And if not, please describe how what you want *significantly* differs.

Comment 2

[swalderich]

Yes, it's the same. Sorry that I didn't find bug 689067 by myself...

Comment 3

[Wayne Mery (:wsmwk)]

no problem