Stopping Thunderbird 3 autoconfig

I recently set up Thunderbird 3 autoconfig, and it automatically started setting up my email accounts. Seems great – it automatically figured out what servers to use, and tried some logins. It was wrong, but gave me a quick start.

Problem was when I wanted to set up an IMAP account instead of POP3. The autoconfig would set up POP3 and wouldn’t allow me to choose IMAP. Apparently there’s NOTHING out there to help with this.

The way to fix it is to disable or disconnect your network. It makes the setup wizard choke and ask you for ALL settings. The resulting screen looks like this:

Thunderbird 3.0 Manual Setup Screen