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I have 10 email addresses in TBird 38.01. How can I arrange them in alphabetical order? Previous app dos not work now

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The app that used to work at https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/thunderbird/addon/manually-sort-folders/ no longer works on 38.0.1. Why does this even need an app. Shouldn't Tbird be able to do this on it's own? Just asking. Help!

The app that used to work at https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/thunderbird/addon/manually-sort-folders/ no longer works on 38.0.1. Why does this even need an app. Shouldn't Tbird be able to do this on it's own? Just asking. Help!

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Why does it need an add-on? Seriously Thunderbird will be using more, not less of them.

I have used Thunderbird for years. It has never occurred to me that the folders should be in some other order. So their is an add-on for those that do., We are both happy.

As for the add-on not working. Have you dropped protz a line on the support email? He is generally quite responsive.

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Thanks for the info. Yes I have contacted the author and am still waiting and keeping my fingers crossed. I just thought that Thunderbird would have a simple feature like this. - moving folder locations up or down standard or at least the ability to alphabetize. - I don't know why I thought that. Silly I guess.

But, yes some of us are brain damaged and need all of our bills to face the same way. L.O.L ( To use and old internet expression.) There are actually 90,487 users of this little add on and it fixes bug 193314. But seriously, with number of email accounts I use, some are just more important than others (sales, customer service for instance) so i want those on top. I want to buy your product emails are more important than "hey buddy have you got a dime" types, for instance. I want to know at a glance if I got an order but can wait to read the rest at my leisure. Know what I mean? So If my donate and bathroom cleaning email accounts comes first and fills up the top of my screen that doesn't make sense to me and makes me less not more productive. I missed a sale today for instance because I didn't scroll down to see that account.

Some people I know even like to have their email accounts alphabetized. Is that insane of what? Of course the person I am thinking of does use over 25 accounts for his 6 online businesses. Crazy world isn't it?

I know I can delete all my accounts from T-bird ( moving the folder to a temp directory first) and them put them back on in the order I want but, I have read that T- bird looses email sometimes when you do that. Crazy as it seems I like some of my files. I delete the ones I don't want.

Thanks for the heads up though! If you know of a solution that would be much appreciated too.

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See that is the difference in use. The last place I look is my inbox. Any the 22 of them

What I do look at are the folders that the mail I want to see is filtered into. As I use local folders for that they are already in alphabetical order, so I feel no desire to reorder them.