How to disable automatic email check for one specific accoun

[plato1123]

Thunderbird 52.x

I use Thunderbird at work for both my personal email and work email. I don't want to check my my personal email except on my breaks. I also get a lot of spam on my personal email and I don't want constant messages popping up telling me I can have a larger penis. How do I disable automatic email check for one email? I've gone into settings and unchecked "check for new messages every 10 minutes" but somehow it still checks constantly. How do I do this?
Thank you!!!!

[tanstaafl]

POP or IMAP? IMAP accounts have a second way to automatically check for new mail. "allow immediate server notifications when new messages arrives" in the server settings.

Is global search/indexing enabled? That fetches mail in the background to build a search index and leaks information about new mail being available to the account. Ditto for IMAP accounts with offline folders (folder enabled in "advanced" in "synchronization & storage")

Worst case you could have two different profiles and use the profile switcher add-on to easily switch between them (rather than using the profile manager to specify what profile to use each time you start Thunderbird). You could have one profile for work and one for personal use. Or have two different profiles each with their own shortcut and use a command line argument to specify what profile to use.

https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/thunde ... eswitcher/
http://kb.mozillazine.org/Running_from_ ... hunderbird (don't worry about the references to USB drives)
http://kb.mozillazine.org/Profile_Manager

[plato1123]

Thank you so much for drawing my attention to the profile switcher plug in, that seems to have done exactly what I want. Cheers!