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Can I change Account Name under Tools>Account Settings?

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phrab7
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I would like to change the names that show up in the navigation pane. There are only 3 (one is myemailaddress on mail.twc.com (a POP account), one says Gmail (a POP account I'll delete soon), & one says myemailaddress@gmail.com (an IMAP setup). If I go to Tools>Account Settings>Account Name & change it, will this affect anything other than the names that appear in the navigation pane? Thank you in advance,

I would like to change the names that show up in the navigation pane. There are only 3 (one is myemailaddress on mail.twc.com (a POP account), one says Gmail (a POP account I'll delete soon), & one says myemailaddress@gmail.com (an IMAP setup). If I go to Tools>Account Settings>Account Name & change it, will this affect anything other than the names that appear in the navigation pane? Thank you in advance,

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Doing this might break (disable) any filters that move messages into or out of folders in the renamed accounts. But that is usually easy to repair.

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Doing this might break (disable) any filters that move messages into or out of folders in the renamed accounts. But that is usually easy to repair.

phrab7
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Thank you very much. I appreciate your time & expertise. I hadn't thought about the filters, but will make note of them before I change anything.

I assume that this is for the filters on the POP account. It shouldn't affect the filters that I've set up in gmail, right?