In Thunderbird mail client, on the left side are where all my email account folder listings are. Problem is, they are mixed up and not in a consistent order. I'd like to put the important ones at top. I cannot find any mechanism to arrange them. They are not in sorted order, so I know it's not enforcing that concept.

I want to avoid having to delete the accounts and do over because it's a big hassle adding accounts, since the account setup too often finds the incorrect servers and manual setup just disappears. After adding an account a few times it finally gets it right. But that's such a big hassle (UX fail).

Seems the answer (not tested) is to edit ~/.thunderbird/<whatever>.default/prefs.js and adjust the order of the list in user_pref("mail.accountmanager.accounts" as described in several pages listed here.

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Thanks.

I still think lots of GUI app developers need to take a course on GUI UX. Thunderbird has missed the mark on UX in so many ways. Fewer than Evolution, but still many. These things should have supported either a drag and drop move around, or right-click menu options to move around.

It's an 11 year old bug with 15 duplicates, 61078.

Add-on Folderpane Tools 0.6.1 provides ordering of accounts and folders.