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Disable automatic e-mail checking in Thunderbird 3

Henning Koch
November 26, 2010Software engineer at makandra GmbH

Have you guys ever done the math on that? You asked or allowed for 24000 interruptions from literally every human being in the world who could fall onto a keyboard and make an e-mail go to you. ( Merlin Mann Show archive.org snapshot )

So you decided to put a price on your attention Show archive.org snapshot and not check your e-mail 24000 times a year. A first step is to disable automatic e-mail checks in Thunderbird.

  1. Open Edit -> Account settings and select your incoming mail account.
  2. Under Server settings uncheck "Check for new messages on startup" and "Check for new messages every X minutes".
  3. Under Advanced, uncheck "Use IDLE command if the server supports it".
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Posted by Henning Koch to makandra dev (2010-11-26 13:52)