Delete Invisible Misconfigured Account

[maffwilson]

I have several email accounts and was adding another recently.

I put in the wrong login name whilst configuring the account and thus it wasn't able to login. When I went into 'Account Preferences' this account doesn't appear, so I can't edit it and change the login details.

However, everytime I try to download email it checks this account - asks me for a password etc. This is annoying. I would just like to be able to delete it but, like I say, I can't see it in the list of my accounts anywhere.

Is there some other way of deleting it?

[makaiguy]

Account Preferences??

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

That's where you'll fin the User Name field.

[Guest]

Account Preferences??

.. then, in the left pane, under the account name

That's exactly my problem - I don't have an entry for the account there.

So how do i edit/delete it?

[makaiguy]

Your best bet at this point may be to just create a new profile and configure it correctly. See this Mozillazine Knowledge Base article: http://kb.mozillazine.org/Transferring_ ... hunderbird

[maffwilson]

ah ha!

Brilliant, thanks for that.

Was able to delete the offending (non) account by editing prefs.js in the main profile folder (s4u1gg1e.default)

No more annoying nagging, ta.