Solved Rearrange Mail Accounts in list

[JodyW]

Is there a way to rearrange the account order for M3? When I added Gmail (with the new snapshot), it added it to the top and I want it in the 2nd position as it is not my main mail account.

[gmg]

@JodyW @h1r3z @sirjeff @EerVideONet @kelleychambers @stardepp @louwe @stormhike @robach @Metamatic @runzi @mvdbroek

It's implemented in house. Will go out in snapshot after the next release (didn't want to take it this time). You'd reorder them in settings.

Edit: It's out on stable in version 7.2

[Hadden89]

@JodyW It seems is not yet implemented. +1

[stardepp]

It would be very useful to be able to sort the order of email accounts.

[LonM]

@stardepp Hi, Thanks for your feature request.

This looks like a duplicate of https://forum.vivaldi.net/topic/53323/favorites-reordering-mail-panel Please vote & discuss at that thread, thank you.

You can use the forum search first to see if you can find similar requests. If that doesn't work, I've catalogued all the requests here.

[stardepp]

@LonM Wrong, this is not a duplicate. @Topha describes something different. Please remove my topic from the duplicate archive!

[LonM]

@stardepp It looked like you were both asking to re-order mail items. (Allowing re-ordering items would also allow re-ordering the accounts). I thought it was the same request.

Perhaps I misunderstood how these are different requests. I've moved it back now.

[jumpsq]

Would be nice if this thread could be moved to Feature Requests by any moderator. Thanks in advance.

[luminouslemon]

This is a deal breaker for me. I really want to try to move to Vivaldi Mail, but I have 12 email accounts and I need the most important ones at the top, NOT in alphabetical order.

[louwe]

I'm looking around on the latest version. I'm guessing this feature is still not implemented?

[Pesala]

Mail Accounts are sorted by alphabetical order — not by the date that they were added.

[stormhike]

Totally agree. Sorting accounts alphabetically makes little sense. Being the webmaster of several sites I have 23 email accounts, some are important that I look at every day, others I rarely look at.
Being able to sort the accounts manually would be great, but having an option to sort them alphabetically by "Account Display Name" would work ...
I could name them "01 [email protected]", "02 [email protected]", etc.

I'm going back to Thunderbird until something like this is implemented. Shame because the mail looks good in Vivaldi, and I think Vivaldi is a great browser.

[robach]

I have 4 account... how ever they seem to appear in random order...

First I added them in the order I wanted...
All fine... But after restart of client the orde was changed.

I then tried to prefix each account-name with the order I want....

1. Account private
2. Gmail account
3. Work account

However - the sorting still doesn't seem to work !??? After restart of client it's random again.

?

[kelleychambers]

@Pesala Nope. That's not true. My accounts as shown in Vivaldi are as follows:

KC.com
P&P
iCloud

And that's how I entered them. I want them in alpha order. But alas, Vivaldi hasn't figured that part out for whatever dumb reason. Before they add more "features" they need to implement the basics first! All they have to do is take a look at any full featured client like Mailbird, em Client, Spark or hell even Mac's own built in Mail app. This is a rock bottom, basement necessity and I cannot believe in all the time Vivaldi has promoted their "free mail client' they haven't done it.

If Vivaldi wants to be taken seriously as a real mail client alternative to Outlook, Mailbird or even Spark, they need to get their &^%$ in order and start implementing the bare necessities NOW!

[Ayespy]

@Pesala The alphabeitcal order is not according to what you name them , but only according to the username on the account itself. User cannot affect this sort order in any way, at present.

[Ayespy]

@kelleychambers Vivaldi sorts per the username of the account. At present, there is nothing you can do about that.

[Ayespy]

@robach It's not random. It's alphabetical per username of the account. Unfortunately, we cannot yet change that.

[kelleychambers]

Well that's just down right stupid to lock down how a user's accounts are displayed. They programmed it deliberately like this which really pisses me off. Screw it. I'll go back to Mailbird. Yeah, it's a paid for app... but at least they don't lock down how your shit is displayed. Absolutely ridiculous.

[Ayespy]

@kelleychambers What are the actual usernames of these accounts? You did not show that.

I've only done this fifty times or so in different ways, and it has always, irrespective of the order in which I added them or what I NAMED the accounts, been aplhabetical per username.

[Ayespy]

@kelleychambers It's not "locked down." They just haven't programmed a better way to do it yet. I expect that will come.

[kelleychambers]

@Ayespy They did lock it down! They ordered it the way they felt it should be completely disregarding how the USER wants to do it. Do you see a way to reorder it the way YOU want? It's bad UX and piss poor UI. One ALWAYS designs for the user and their needs/wants. I'm a web designer and developer of over 25 years. I know what I'm talking about.

And yeah, I'm pissed. This stupid, trivial BS in 2023 is absolutely pointless and 100% avoidable.