OK, I messed up: it was the account<n> entries that had to be reordered. I did it from
memory without checking. Hope it all continues to work for you.
-=-
Alan
Britt Turnbull wrote:
> On Sun, 7 Jul 2002 13:07:31 UTC, Alan Beagley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
>
>>Rearrange the entries in prefs.js -- not just reordering the lines, but changing
>the numbering again so that the "server n" entries (or whatever the "labels" are)
>are in sequence.
>>
>>NB: Make a backup first.
>>
>>-=-
>
> Hi Alan,
>
> close but no cigar...<g>
>
> this is what I had....
>
> user_pref("mail.account.account1.identities", "id2");
> user_pref("mail.account.account1.server", "server1");
> user_pref("mail.account.account2.server", "server2");
> user_pref("mail.account.account3.identities", "id3");
> user_pref("mail.account.account3.server", "server3");
> user_pref("mail.account.account4.identities", "id1");
> user_pref("mail.account.account4.server", "server4");
> user_pref("mail.account.account5.identities", "id4");
> user_pref("mail.account.account5.server", "server5");
> user_pref("mail.account.account6.identities", "id5");
> user_pref("mail.account.account6.server", "server5");
>
> user_pref("mail.accountmanager.accounts",
> "account1,account2,account4,account3,account6,account5");
>
> user_pref("mail.accountmanager.defaultaccount", "account4");
> user_pref("mail.accountmanager.localfoldersserver", "server2");
>
> now, by identifying the id's and servers by the details in prefs.js, you can
> change things so that to get what you want...
>
> I wanted and now have .....
>
> user_pref("mail.account.account1.identities", "id1");
> user_pref("mail.account.account1.server", "server4");
> user_pref("mail.account.account2.identities", "id4");
> user_pref("mail.account.account2.server", "server2");
> user_pref("mail.account.account3.identities", "id3");
> user_pref("mail.account.account3.server", "server3");
> user_pref("mail.account.account4.identities", "id2");
> user_pref("mail.account.account4.server", "server1");
> user_pref("mail.accountmanager.accounts",
> "account2,account3,account4,account1");
> user_pref("mail.accountmanager.defaultaccount", "account1");
>
> this was achieved by eliminating one server entry which was deleted from the
> prefs listing ages ago, but was still listed.....
>
> also server2 was for the Local folders so I got rid of that....
>
> I also deleted this line, to get rid of Local Folders....
> user_pref("mail.accountmanager.localfoldersserver", "server2");
>
> This line determines what the the first folder in the mail accounts list
> is...
> user_pref("mail.accountmanager.defaultaccount", "account1");
>
> Just finished, and everything seems OK... but time will tell...
