There should be a way, like a drag and drop feature, to move an Address Book up or down the Address Books list. I think this bug is related to others like the #17230 "Can't rename AB name" one.

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This is an enhancement request; adding keyword to summary; adding source link.

Or even a way to sort the existing address books by ascending or descending, although being able to have trees of address books would be very nice.

When searching address books, we want the corporate directory searched 1st and then any personal address books. Current settings do not allow for this.

(In reply to comment #0) > There should be a way, like a drag and drop feature, to move an Address Book up > or down the Address Books list. There is a manual workaround for this problem in Thunderbird that may be applicable to Seamonkey. See bug #275485 Comment #2.

(In reply to comment #6) > When searching address books, we want the corporate directory searched 1st and > then any personal address books. Current settings do not allow for this. I think search order is a separate issue from display order (even though the two happen to be the same currently), and so I've created a separate bug for that: bug #292153.

Dennis.Jennings@ucd.ie writes: "I have abandoned Mozilla in favour of Thunderbird - and have manually eliminated address books that are not in alphabetical sequence. The remaining address books, and any new address books, are is ascending order. I still can't add sub-address books in Thunderbird - but that is not too much of a problem. I think that the Mozilla problems I was having may have been due to the fact that I have been using versions of Mozilla since the early Netscape days."

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Reported at http://getsatisfaction.com/mozilla_messaging/topics/alphabetize_address_book_names Manual process at http://forums.mozillazine.org/viewtopic.php?f=39&t=889185&p=4662625

This bug was initially started in 2002. It was reported again see bug number 212667 I can confirm, that over the past year, i have tested this on all versions released in that time period and it is still a bug. Using Vista and version 24.1.1 In config Editor ldap_2.servers.pab.position was set as 1 ldap_2.servers.history.position was set as 2 2 other address books did not have a .position entry, but had all the other ldap entries. one sub list (Mailing list) of Personal Address Book has a .position as 0 Other address books that were deleted ages ago only displayed one item and it was the .position information with integer 0 I was supprised to still see these entries as I expected deleted items to not exist. I created .position entries for the 2 working addressbook that had no .position information. I set one as integer 1, pab as integer 2, history as integer 3 and the last one as integer 4. The remaining deleted address books still show a .position as 0. the mailing list also remained as 0. The config editor was closed and I clicked on OK to save changes to Options. Opened Address Book - no change to order. Closed and reopened Thunderbird (also tested in Safe Mode) but the order remains unchanged. Any thoughts?

Further testing: In addition to the previous comment Modified all zero entries Changed the mailing list .position to 5 made all old deleted addressbook .position to 6 This had no effect on the order of address books in the Address Book Directory Pane.