Now that you know what stands for which email account, you can reorder the accounts the way you want just by changing the stuff in the first user_pref brackets to e.g. That's how you know which email account is given which ID number by Thunderbird.
In the first user_pref brackets, the accounts are listed in the current order in which they appear in your Thunderbird - unfortunately it doesn't identify the accounts by name like college, Gmail, local folders etc, but from the note you took earlier, if college email appeared first then it's account3 in the example above, if work email appeared next in order then it's account5, and so on. User_pref("", "account3,account5,account4,account2,account1,account6") college, Gmail, local folders.Īs the MozillaZine thread mentions, find the 2 lines in that file which look something like this: But before you close Thunderbird take a note of the order in which your email accounts folders appear in Thunderbird on the left e.g. Make sure Thunderbird is closed before you try to edit the file, which you can do e.g. The MozillaZine site explains how to manually edit your prefs.js file which is to be found in your Thunderbird profile folder. How to change the account order - prefs.js So here is how to change the order of email accounts in Thunderbird, and stop newly added accounts from disappearing. I've even added a new email account - and then found that on closing and restarting Thunderbird, the new account has vanished completely. for Gmail, mail via Google Apps and my college email), it isn't obvious how to get your different email accounts to show up in the order you want. If you use the free open source email software Mozilla Thunderbird, which I do (e.g.
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