I did this a long time ago using the mouse drag and drop hot key. And I remember having to track down how to do it in Thunderbird help because there was some quirk about how you could move these items. I don't remember what that was now. But in the end I got it done without too much trouble. Below is the Window-Eyes help for the Drag and Drop hot key.

Mouse Drag and Drop.
Window-Eyes provides a straight-forward method to perform a drag and drop operation with the mouse. Follow these steps to
drag and drop.

Move the mouse pointer to the item you want to move or the start of the text you want to select. Press the Mouse Drag and Drop hot key, which is Insert-Numpad-Delete by default. Window-Eyes will say, "mark." Move the pointer to where you want the item to move or where end of the text you want to select.
Press the Mouse Drag and Drop hot key again.
A dialog will open. Choose "Drop," and press Enter. Note that for the drag and drop to work successfully, both the start and end locations you choose must remain visible. The operation will fail if part of the area is covered up by another window.

Hth,
Tom


On 8/8/2015 5:22 PM, Christopher-Mark Gilland via Talk wrote:
BTW, still, hardly anyone has written me back about my other TB question.

Is there a reliable way that I can move the message headings around in
the message list?  So, say for example, that a folder has it where the
subject is first, followed then by the sender's name.  What I want to do
is reverse that so it looks more like Outlook.  I want it where it has
the sender's name, then the subject, then finally the date.

My mom was able to fix this for me on my main inbox folder of GMail by
dragging the sender's name header and dropping it on the subject header
to reverse them with the physical mouse, but try as I may in version 38
of TB, I cannot seem to get my mouse pointer to focus there where I can
do this myself.  It used to work, but apparently not anymore unless you
all know something I don't.  The bad thing is, I thought that would work
globally, I didn't realize when she was doing this for me that there is
a graphic you gotta click to apply to all folders.

Could someone maybe write me a script that would shift those two flip
flopped on the active folder when TB is fully maximized, then hit the
graphic to apply to all folders?

I'd be happy to pay via PayPal if someone could do that for me, if there
really isn't a reliable way otherwise.  I couldn't pay a huge amount for
the script, but I'd be happy to pay up to $20 for it, should it not
already be easily possible.

Just let me know.

Chris.
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