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Mozilla Thunderbird Annoyance - setting a default sort order and grouping for your inbox. |
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Written by Administrator
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Friday, 16 January 2009 |
I hate the fact that I constantly need to fix the default sort on my inbox every time I open Thunderbird. After much hair-pulling I discovered a seven year old bug report and feature request which I used to cobble together the solution below. I don't claim to entirely understand why this works, but it works for me in Thunderbird 2.0.0.19....
You will need to fist open the following file:
C:\Program Files\Mozilla Thunderbird\defaults\pref\mailnews.js
Somewhere in there, add the following line:
pref("mailnews.default_view_flags",64); //this will create a default setting to group the messages by sort type
Now open Thunderbird and go to Tools-->Options menu, click the "General" tab, then click the "Config Editor..." button. In the search box, enter "mailnews.default" to pull up the relevant settings. Then use the following chart taken from the mozilla bug tracker to set your preferred settings:
sort_order:
byNone 17 byPriority 23 byLocation 29
byDate 18 * byStatus 24 byTags 30
bySubject 19 * bySize 25 byJunkStatus 31
byAuthor 20 * byFlagged 26 byAttachments 32
byId 21 ** byUnread 27 byAccount 33
byThread 22 byRecipient 28 byCustom 34
* = commonly desired values
** = by Order Received (?)
sort_type:
ascending 1
descending 2
view_flags -- the second group of values can be added to one of the first group
to combine effects, with several limitations:
Unthreaded 0
Threaded 1
Grouped 64 [mail only (?)]
ShowIgnored 8 [news only]
ShowUnreadOnly 16
ShowExpanded 32 [doesn't seem to work]
ShowUnreadOnly will check the View|Threads|Unread menu; this will cause only
unread items to be seen, but doesn't force a threaded view.
To get a veiw that looks like the standard Outlook inbox where it displays messages by date and groups them into a collapsable view by date, use the following values:
mailnews.default_sort_order = 18
mailnews.defalt_sort_type = 2
mailnews.default_view_flags = 64
Enjoy!
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Last Updated ( Sunday, 01 February 2009 )
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