Thunderbird/Change account order
The order of accounts and identities cannot be changed without manually reording them in the configuration (using about:config or prefs.js).
about:config (recommended)[edit]
- Tools > Options > Tab: Advanced > Tab : General > Config editor : "I'll be careful, I promise!"
Thunderbird stores the order of the accounts in mail.accountmanager.accounts. It is a comma-separated list of account designations. By reordering the designations in the list you change the order of the accounts as they appear in thunderbird except for the default account which always appears first.
mail.accountmanager.accounts: account1,account2,account3,account4,account5,account6 mail.accountmanager.defaultaccount: account1
To figure out which account belongs to each designation you can look for mail.account.account<N>.server (where N is the number) which contains a server designation:
mail.account.account1.server: server1
Using the server designation you can search for mail.server.server1 which can be used to figure out what each account is:
mail.server.server1.hostname: example.net mail.server.server1.name: foo@example.net mail.server.server1.userName: foo ...
If you want Local Folders to appear first you need to use that as the default account.
prefs.js[edit]
- ~/.thunderbird/<your profile>/prefs.js in GNU/Linux,
- C:\Documents and Settings\<your profile>\Application Data\Thunderbird\Profiles\****.default\prefs.js in Microsoft Windows XP, and
- C:\Users\<your profile>\App Data\Roaming\Thunderbird\Profiles\****.default\prefs.js in Microsoft Windows Vista, 7 and 8.
| File: prefs.js |
user_pref("mail.accountmanager.accounts", "account5,account3,account2,account4,account1,account7");
user_pref("mail.accountmanager.defaultaccount", "account5");
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Follow same instructions as about:config.
| Note: You must not edit prefs.js while Thunderbird is running! |
Identities[edit]
The order of identities (within an account) can be reordered by modifying mail.account.account<N>.identities (and the actual identities can be found at mail.identity.id<N>)
