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NOT WORKING: Changing the order of account mail check

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I have 4 email accounts set up in Thunderbird (all Gmail), and I can't seem to change the order of which is checked first when fetching new mail. I tried adjusting the order in Account settings, I've tried manually updating the prefs.js mail.accountmanager.accounts parameter. Nothing changes. The only thing I can say is unsual about my setup is at some point I changed the username to one or two of my accounts, so even though I only have 4 accounts, my prefs.js lists 6, and 2 of those (account 6 & 4, and 5 & 3) seem redundant but I'm afraid to manually modify the settings. Here's what it looks like. I want account 6/4 to be 2nd, but nothing I do seems to work.

user_pref("mail.account.account1.identities", "id1"); user_pref("mail.account.account1.server", "server1"); user_pref("mail.account.account2.server", "server2"); user_pref("mail.account.account3.identities", "id2"); user_pref("mail.account.account3.server", "server3"); user_pref("mail.account.account4.server", "server4"); user_pref("mail.account.account5.identities", "id3"); user_pref("mail.account.account5.server", "server5"); user_pref("mail.account.account6.identities", "id4"); user_pref("mail.account.account6.server", "server6"); user_pref("mail.account.lastKey", 6); user_pref("mail.accountmanager.accounts", "account1,account6,account3,account5,account2,account4"); user_pref("mail.accountmanager.defaultaccount", "account1"); user_pref("mail.accountmanager.localfoldersserver", "server2");

I have 4 email accounts set up in Thunderbird (all Gmail), and I can't seem to change the order of which is checked first when fetching new mail. I tried adjusting the order in Account settings, I've tried manually updating the prefs.js mail.accountmanager.accounts parameter. Nothing changes. The only thing I can say is unsual about my setup is at some point I changed the username to one or two of my accounts, so even though I only have 4 accounts, my prefs.js lists 6, and 2 of those (account 6 & 4, and 5 & 3) seem redundant but I'm afraid to manually modify the settings. Here's what it looks like. I want account 6/4 to be 2nd, but nothing I do seems to work. user_pref("mail.account.account1.identities", "id1"); user_pref("mail.account.account1.server", "server1"); user_pref("mail.account.account2.server", "server2"); user_pref("mail.account.account3.identities", "id2"); user_pref("mail.account.account3.server", "server3"); user_pref("mail.account.account4.server", "server4"); user_pref("mail.account.account5.identities", "id3"); user_pref("mail.account.account5.server", "server5"); user_pref("mail.account.account6.identities", "id4"); user_pref("mail.account.account6.server", "server6"); user_pref("mail.account.lastKey", 6); user_pref("mail.accountmanager.accounts", "account1,account6,account3,account5,account2,account4"); user_pref("mail.accountmanager.defaultaccount", "account1"); user_pref("mail.accountmanager.localfoldersserver", "server2");

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