On 07/05/15 01:27, j.halifax2@xxxxxxxxx wrote: > You can e.g. use "ls" and "mv" shell commands to move the old > directory ("folder") content in the new one in the desired order.. uh... what??? in following, i am defining containers by their names as used in both thunderbird and as viewed with a file browser. first use will be marked with ' '. after, just by name. op is wanting to arrange and sort within an 'email folder file', which is a 'file' containing emails, not a 'directory'. a 'folder directory' does not contain emails. that is it should not because having emails in a 'top folder directory' can/may lead to corruption. if an email folder file has emails that have been moved into it from random email folder files, the emails can end up in a non chronological order. to arrange emails into a chronological order, they must be manually move, ie, dragged and dropped to either a temp email folder file, or to desire destination folder file in chronological order. which is why i suggested using; View > Sort by > { selection } to view emails in order desired. to my knowledge, and i just now checked again, there is no add-on that will physically sort emails by chronological order. there may be a '3rd party' add-on to physically sort emails by chronological order, but i am not aware of such. and yes, i have searched. tho not lately. -- peace out. -+- If Bill Gates got a dime for every time Windows crashes... ...oh, wait. He does. THAT explains it! -+- in a world with out fences, who needs gates. -+- CentOS GNU/Linux 6.6 tc,hago. g . -- users mailing list users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Fedora Code of Conduct: http://fedoraproject.org/code-of-conduct Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines Have a question? Ask away: http://ask.fedoraproject.org