10215 - Difficult to determine account order in folder pane

Status: VERIFIED FIXED

(SeaMonkey :: MailNews: Message Display, defect, P2)

Description

[Ninoschka Baca]

1999071911M9: Win32/NT4, Linux/Redhat 5.2, Mac 8.5.1

It is difficult to determine the order of accounts displayed in the folder
pane:
- They do not correspond with the ID number in the prefs50.js file.
- They do not display alphabetically in the folder panel.

I have noticed:
- If I have 2 pop and 2 imap accounts that the pop accounts appear first.

Note: If I see other patterns then I will add them to this bug.

Comment 1

[Ninoschka Baca]

Assigning to Alecf and QA Contact to nbaca.

Comment 2

[lchiang]

I think alec has another bug similar to his one filed by scurtis.

Comment 3

[Alec Flett]

*** Bug 7273 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 4

[sol]

Sounds like this needs to be fixed for PR1, so I added a note to the Status
Whiteboard

Comment 5

[Alec Flett]

I have a fix for this now. Needs a bit more debugging, then it will be ready to
be checked in.

Comment 6

[Alec Flett]

ok, the fix is finally in. folders should appear in exactly the order you
specify the accounts in your prefs.

Comment 7

[Ninoschka Baca]

Build 1999090109M10: Win32/NT4
Build 1999083116M10: Linux/Redhat 6.0
Build 1999083108M10: Mac 8.5.1
Verified Fixed.

I can control the account order displayed in the folder pane by changing the
order of accounts on the "mail.accountmanager.accounts" statement. For instance:

user_pref("mail.accountmanager.accounts", account1,account2,account3");
versus
user_pref("mail.accountmanager.accounts", account3,account2,account1");

Comment 8

[Jerry Baker]

Since my Mozilla pref is set to:

user_pref("mail.accountmanager.accounts", "account2,account3,account4");

but my accounts are listed in the folder pane as...

account3
account4
account2

Should this be reopened?