On Oct 30, 12:49 am, "JW 'Yawn' vanLohuizen" <[email protected]> wrote: > 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.
P.S. A drag and drop method for reordering of the accounts would also be awesome. Thanks _______________________________________________ support-seamonkey mailing list [email protected] https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/support-seamonkey
