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I have multiple accounts (both yahoo and gmail) ; when tbird starts up it does not query all accounts ; Why?

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When tbird starts up I get 2 of my email accounts to retrieve msgs ; I have to manually highlight the other and click the get msgs button to get the rest off of my gmail and yahoo accnts

When tbird starts up I get 2 of my email accounts to retrieve msgs ; I have to manually highlight the other and click the get msgs button to get the rest off of my gmail and yahoo accnts

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right click an account in the folder pane.

Select settings. In the account settings dialog, check in the Server settings for the accounts that check for new messages on startup is selected.

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right click an account in the folder pane.

Select settings. In the account settings dialog, check in the Server settings for the accounts that check for new messages on startup is selected.