After spending some time I have figured at a manual way to quickly
reorder how each account is displayed in the Mail & Newsgroups Manager
in SM1.
WARNING!!! --- SM2 renames the pop folders so manually copy email to
the new profile could place them in the worng account.
Make a copy of the prefs.js file in the profile directory. Write done
the current order of the accounts displayed.
Look at the line:
user_pref("...");
This is the order that the accounts appear, and write those numbers in
from of each account name in the list you made. then reorder them as
desired in the list.
Got to the line again and reorder the account names so they are in the
order you wish displayed.
user_pref("...");
Remember that the Account # that relates to Local Folders will always
display last, no matter what order it is put in the list.
*** Notes to the developers:
1. Please change numbers from 1,2, etc. to 01, 02, etc. so that 10
appears in order after 09 and not after 01.
2. Please rename Local folders to Account00 so they will always get
the same number, making it obvious as to what account it is.
3. Could you please make a gui to change the order and to reorder the
id#'s, etc., so it can be cleaned up easily?
4. Could you also rename the pop folders like I already mentioned?
A. instead of "pop.yahoo.com", pop."yahoo-1.com" etc. to
"username.yahoo". The ".com", ".net", etc. are not needed and if
there is a ".com" and ".net" associated with the same domain name then
simply make the exception and call it "usename.yahooocom" or
"username.yahoocom". These would be rare. for ".co.uk" and ".co.ca"
etc. it would be the same, "username.yahoouk", or "username.yahooca".
No more confusion over which folder is which and require a knowledge
of needing to look it up and where. Moving one user to a new computer
is now very simple rather than transferring all the mail and removing
all the other accounts such as moving to college and want all the
stuff form that kids account but not the others.
I wish I know this before trying to move to SM2. That was a mess
since I was forced to delete all of the accounts and put them back
in. I also had to copy email that didn't transfer and since SM2
weirdly is different, they at first wound up in the wrong folders.
Suggestion 4 will solve this one.
Thanks guys.
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