Have you ever wounder how to change the default sorting of the Thunderbird mail client? For me the standard default sorting it’s very annoying since I prefer the newest mail first. But out of box the my mail client shows the oldest one first.
So I went out and searched for a solution. And expect what: I found one! 🙂
Open your Options dialog and choose „Config Editor“ of the Advanced/General Page. The „about:config“ of Thunderbird will open. Into the filter field type „mailnews.default“ and you’ll see the current default of mails and news. Fine, but what are all these silly values means?
sort_order:
- 1 ascending
- 2 descending
sort_type:
- 17 byNone
- 18 byDate
- 19 bySubject
- 20 byAuthor
- 21 byId
- 22 byThread
- 23 byPriority
- 24 byStatus
- 25 bySize
- 26 byFlagged
- 27 byUnread
- 28 byRecipient
- 29 byLocation
- 30 byTags
- 31 byJunkStatus
- 32 byAttachments
- 33 byAccount
- 34 byCustom
view_flags:
- 0 Unthreaded
- 1 Threaded
For me I’ve just changed the mailnews.default_sort_order to 2 and mailnews.default_view_flags to 0 and I was happy.
Is there any addon out there which does the job? Up to now I didn’t found any. May I go ahead a write one …. as soon as I’ll get some spare time. (A request of such an extension could speed this process…)
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