Should be an easy way to just disable e-mail accounts instead of removing them

[RVAgeezer]

For historical reasons, I don't want to remove a couple of old e-mail accounts in Thunderbird.  For one account, TB tries to connect once, and after I blip off the error message, it lets me go about my day.

For the second account, however, the new release of TB annoys me every few minutes with a connection failure message.  I'm currently working around this by right-clicking the title bar of the error/signon window and minimizing it (even though it has no minimize button per se) and letting the minimized window stew itself on my task bar.

[Jon]

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[RVAgeezer]

Follow-up:  When the sign-on/connect error window pops up for the second e-mail account, I can't just minimize it out of the way; as long as the window is live, it apparently inhibits the receiving of e-mails on other accounts.  This is not acceptable.