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GalacticPrez
Making moves
Status: Not right now

It would be nice if I could drag and drop the top level folders of each mail account in Thunderbird  in the LHS panel, because I cannot remember if they just appear in the order in which I created them, but however that order is selected, it doesn't appear to be subject to user modification, and I am going through the process of updating websites and creating new ones and creating new emails, and I need to have them in a logical order, and preferably even be able to group them by domain, so that I can have the most minimal view on the LHS but then open a domain, and see all the email addresses in that domain in the order in which I want them to appea

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Status changed to: New idea
Jon
Community Manager
Community Manager

Thanks for submitting an idea to the Mozilla Connect community! Your idea is now open to votes (aka kudos) and comments.

Erwin_87
New member

Great idea, I would also like to change the order of these folders. Doesn't have to be domain specific for me. But would be great to just drag and drop them around so I won't have to scroll anymore for my newest account. 

MattAuSupport
Familiar face

Another instance of asking for what already exists.

  1. Go to account settings.
  2. Drag the accounts into the order you want them to be in the list on the side.
  3. Restart Thunderbird.

Done

Status changed to: Not right now
wsmwk
Thunderbird Team
Thunderbird Team

It is true that reordering in Account Settings is possible.  But the reporter @GalacticPrez is expecting this in the folder pane. Lack of discoverability is partly to blame for such expectations, which is https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1814778

With reordering possible in Account settings, I would not expect ordering in the folder pane to be considered any time soon.

c0d3h4x0r
Strollin' around

Lack of discoverability is a bug. I've been looking for (and expecting to find) this functionality in the folder pane as well. It's the natural place to expect to be able to do it. It's incredibly non-obvious to have to go into Account Settings to change it.

ronr
New member

I have two computers running the same version of Thunderbird mail.  On my laptop I can reorder my accounts in the Accounts Settings and reload and it works.  On my second desktop computer, I can reorder but then I reload and they're back where they were.  Very annoying...    

jziggy
New member

The initial comment for re-ordering the accounts on the left side does not work anymore.