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  <info>
    <link type="guide" xref="index#accounts"/>
    <link type="seealso" xref="remove-account"/>
    <desc>Prevent <app>Empathy</app> from automatically logging in to an account.</desc>
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    <revision pkgversion="2.30" version="0.5" date="2010-02-03" status="review"/>
    <credit type="author">
      <name>Milo Casagrande</name>
      <email>milo@ubuntu.com</email>
    </credit>
    <credit type="author">
      <name>Shaun McCance</name>
      <email>shaunm@gnome.org</email>
    </credit>
    <license>
      <p>Creative Commons Share Alike 3.0</p>
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  </info>

  <title>Disable an account</title>

  <p>You can disable an account to prevent <app>Empathy</app> from logging in to
  it without removing the account entirely.  You may wish to disable and re-enable
  an account if you only want to be logged in to the account at certain times,
  but you still want to use <app>Empathy</app> for other accounts.</p>

  <steps>
    <item>
      <p>From the <gui>Contact List</gui> window, choose <guiseq><gui>Edit</gui>
      <gui>Accounts</gui></guiseq>, or press <key>F4</key>.</p>
    </item>
    <item>
      <p>Select the account you wish to disable from the accounts list on the left
      side of the window.</p>
    </item>
    <item>
      <p>Deselect <gui style="checkbox">Enabled</gui> on the right side of the
      window.
      </p>
    </item>
  </steps>

  <p>
    To re-enable the account, simply select <gui style="checkbox">Enabled</gui>.
  </p>
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