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How can I control the order of accounts and folders in the folder pane?

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I have many email accounts, and most of them share the same message store in Local Folders and I routinely download mail from all of this group. Additionally, I have a number of miscellaneous email accounts from which I do not regularly download email, so I have kept them showing as distinct accounts. However, since they are not important, I would rather that they come at the end of the list in the folder pane, as it does not matter much if they scroll off the bottom. Nevertheless, the folders for these accounts seem to insist on appearing before those for Local Accounts. I'd like to change that.

The explicit folders that I have created under Local Folders seem to insist on appearing in alphabetic order. Is there any way to override that?

I have many email accounts, and most of them share the same message store in Local Folders and I routinely download mail from all of this group. Additionally, I have a number of miscellaneous email accounts from which I do not regularly download email, so I have kept them showing as distinct accounts. However, since they are not important, I would rather that they come at the end of the list in the folder pane, as it does not matter much if they scroll off the bottom. Nevertheless, the folders for these accounts seem to insist on appearing before those for Local Accounts. I'd like to change that. The explicit folders that I have created under Local Folders seem to insist on appearing in alphabetic order. Is there any way to override that?

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Use this add-on. https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/thunderbird/addon/manually-sort-folders/

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Use this add-on. https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/thunderbird/addon/manually-sort-folders/

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Perfect! Thanks. It does exactly what I wanted and more.

Odd that it failed to turn up as a result of the search based on my initial question. My query had all the right words to get a hit. Hmmm ...

Now I am embarrassed. I just googled "thunderbird" followed by an exact quote of the question that is the subject of this thread, and guess what turned up at the top of the list! It should have occurred to me to try Google before I tried the question here. I guess I just never expected that there would be such a clean solution. Perhaps with my question now in the Mozilla database, others can benefit if they ask a similar question here.