As a ‘webmaster’ I use Thunderbird to download email from multiple email accounts all the time and was adding another to my list recently when I encountered an annoying wee problem.
In the Thunderbird account setup wizard I put in the wrong login name – I just guessed to be honest which isn’t usually a problem as you can try another easily enough – and thus it wasn’t able to login.
The problem was that when I went into ‘Account Preferences’ this account doesn’t appear, so I can’t edit it and change the login details.
Menu Path:
[In Windows & OSX]: Tools | Account Settings, or
[In *nix]: Edit | Account Settings
.. then, in the left pane, under the account name, Server Settings
However, every time I tried to download email it checked this account – and asked me for a password etc. This was annoying. How could I edit or delete this account if I couldn’t see it?.
Thanks to advice received on this thread I found the solution.
I was able to delete the offending (non) account by editing prefs.js in the main profile folder (for example, s4u1gg1e.default) .
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