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I have two email accounts and would like the default tab "Get Messages" to be the "Get All New Messages" tab instead

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I often forget to use the pull down menu on the Get Messages tab in order to click the Get All New Messages for both accounts at once. Is there a way to set the Get All New Messages as the default tab (rather than the Get Messages, which only pulls in messages for the default email account)? Thanks!

I often forget to use the pull down menu on the Get Messages tab in order to click the Get All New Messages for both accounts at once. Is there a way to set the Get All New Messages as the default tab (rather than the Get Messages, which only pulls in messages for the default email account)? Thanks!

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It's a button, not a tab.

Get yourself a better button such as:

https://addons.mozilla.org/en-GB/thunderbird/addon/get-selected-mails/

Whilst it's designed to get a subset of your accounts, you can set it to fetch all.

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It's a button, not a tab.

Get yourself a better button such as:

https://addons.mozilla.org/en-GB/thunderbird/addon/get-selected-mails/

Whilst it's designed to get a subset of your accounts, you can set it to fetch all.