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I know how to remove an e-mail account from Thunderbird. However, after removing all my e-mail accounts from Thunderbird (under Linux), I discovered that my default Thunderbird profile still contains a lot of data (if not all of it) from the removed accounts. For example, ImapMail subfolder takes 2.6 GB and seems to contain all the mail from removed accounts, and it contains several copies of one account which I had removed and set up several times.
Can this data left behind be accessed through Thunderbird interface in any way? In particular, can I ask Thunderbird to remove it, or do I need to do it manually? If I change my mind and decide to re-create one of the removed accounts in Thunderbird, can I instruct it to use the saved data instead of downloading it again? If not, does it mean that this data is essentially lost, and this is a Thunderbird bug? In this case, could you suggest any instructions for cleaning up this data manually?
This question would probably be more appropriate for Mozilla community support forum, but I do not want to register for just one question. (It seems likely I will stop using Thunderbird soon.)
Alexey
Posted 2017-01-29T13:06:11.033
Reputation: 857
Maybe try clearing the cache in Preferences > Preferences > Advanced > Network & Disk Space – Taz8du29 – 2017-01-29T14:13:10.847
Thanks for an idea, but this didn't help. Obviously, what i am talking about is regular account data and not cache. My cache was limited to 350 MB by the way. – Alexey – 2017-01-29T15:20:53.843