Want To Sort Thunderbird Emails By Date Received? Here You Go!

  

Published By Mohit Jha

Approved By Tej Pratap Shukla

Published On April 29th, 2022

Reading Time 5 Minutes Reading

Mozilla Thunderbird is an open-source email client used to store emails and other personal information like address book, tasks, calendars, etc. But mainly the focus is to manage the email messages. Now, commonly users want to set their emails to be sorted by date. This is done so as to have the newest emails on top of your inbox. But this isn’t always the case.
In this post, we will show you how to sort Thunderbird emails by date. And if it’s still not showing the messages in the correct order, we also have another sorting option.

How to Sort Emails by Date in Thunderbird?

1. 1. Open Mozilla Thunderbird application and highlight the folder whose emails you need to sort
   2. Next, navigate to the toolbar and click View tab
      Note: If your toolbar is hidden, press the Alt key to show it.
   3. From opened menu list, select Sort by >> Date
   4. You can also choose from Ascending/Descending options to sort the messages in reverse order

Since, emails date are set according to the sender’s date, sorting the emails by date may still display the messages in incorrect order. This generally happens when the email sender has a different/incorrect clock set on their system.

These methods will sort Thunderbird emails by date and order received. By using the second you, no matter what date is set on your system or the sender’s system, the top emails will always be the most recent ones. You can use the Ascending/Descending attributes here as well to reverse the display order.

Sort Thunderbird Emails by Date and Export in Sorted Order

ImportExportTools is a FREE add-on provided for Mozilla Thunderbird. Download and install it.

I. Configure to export emails in sorted date order

• • Launch Thunderbird email client on your machine and select the required folder
  • Click on Tools menu and select ImportExport Tools >> Options

• • Select the Filenames tab and in the Customized format for filenames section, mark Use following format option.
    Here, set the format to use Date as the first option. You can also choose to add time to date as well as prefix for the saved files. Click Ok to save the chnages.

II. Now we export the emails in sorted order

• • Go to Tools >> ImportExportTools >> Export all messages in a folder
  • Now, just choose from the multiple export options such as EML/ HTML/ Plain Text Format/ PDF/ CSV etc.

• After selecting the destination location, the export process will begin. This way you can sort Thunderbird emails by date and export them in sorted way.

What If You Want to Export Sorted Emails as Outlook PST?

We can see that the ImportExport Tools NG does not provide PST as an export format. Hence, this is the point where MBOX to PST Converter proves handy. The software converts Thunderbird emails along with attachments to PST file format.

So, just use the methods above to sort Thunderbird emails by date and export them as PST using the best software afterwards. In addition, maintain the folder structure and data integrity along with properties and attachments intact.

The Bottom Line

In this digital era, emails are the most vital ingredient that is responsible for the growth of a business. Accessing and managing these emails is sometimes easy and sometimes it becomes completely a new level of challenge. In this technical guide, we have covered one such email migration issue i.e., how to sort emails by date in Thunderbird so as to display them in the newest received order. Solutions to queries regarding exporting these emails in multiple formats are also provided.