{"id":560,"date":"2009-11-27T17:10:08","date_gmt":"2009-11-27T15:10:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/raftaman.net\/?p=560"},"modified":"2021-05-15T11:46:41","modified_gmt":"2021-05-15T09:46:41","slug":"rearrange-thunderbird-accounts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/possiblelossofprecision.net\/?p=560","title":{"rendered":"Rearrange Thunderbird accounts"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Unfortunately, the <a href=\"https:\/\/addons.mozilla.org\/en-US\/thunderbird\/addon\/258\">Folderpane Tools-plugin<\/a> I used for rearranging my accounts in Thunderbird isn&#8217;t TB3 compatible (yet?!). Although it claims to work with all Thunderbird versions starting from 1.0 it just throws out parsing errors with the current Tunderbird beta.<\/p>\n<p>But the plugin doesn&#8217;t do any magic tricks, of course. It simply reorders the accounts in the corresponding preferences file <strong>prefs.js<\/strong>. Open the file (usually located in with <code>~\/.thunderbird\/[profileName]\/prefs.js<\/code>) with your favourite editor and look for a line like<\/p>\n<pre class=\"brush: plain; light: true; title: ; notranslate\" title=\"\">\r\nuser_pref(&quot;mail.accountmanager.accounts&quot;, &quot;account1,account2...\r\n<\/pre>\n<p>Rearrange the accounts manually and your done.<\/p>\n<p>Note: You may want to close Thunderbird and make a backup of the file before editing it. Just in case&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Resources:<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/addons.mozilla.org\/en-US\/thunderbird\/addon\/258\">https:\/\/addons.mozilla.org\/en-US\/thunderbird\/addon\/258<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/advancingsf.blogspot.com\/2006\/11\/reorder-accounts-in-thunderbird.html\">http:\/\/advancingsf.blogspot.com\/2006\/11\/reorder-accounts-in-thunderbird.html<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Unfortunately, the Folderpane Tools-plugin I used for rearranging my accounts in Thunderbird isn&#8217;t TB3 compatible (yet?!). Although it claims to work with all Thunderbird versions starting from 1.0 it just throws out parsing errors with the current Tunderbird beta. But the plugin doesn&#8217;t do any magic tricks, of course. It simply reorders the accounts in the corresponding preferences file prefs.js&#8230;. <a href=\"https:\/\/possiblelossofprecision.net\/?p=560\">Read more &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[7,25],"class_list":["post-560","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-fedora","tag-thunderbird"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/possiblelossofprecision.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/560","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/possiblelossofprecision.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/possiblelossofprecision.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/possiblelossofprecision.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/possiblelossofprecision.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=560"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/possiblelossofprecision.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/560\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2689,"href":"https:\/\/possiblelossofprecision.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/560\/revisions\/2689"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/possiblelossofprecision.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=560"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/possiblelossofprecision.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=560"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/possiblelossofprecision.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=560"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}