Gotta be the most annoying feature ever invented.

Dude, when you sort a deck of cards, do you push each card up or down in the
stack a single position at a time?  No.  You take each one and put it directly
where it belongs.

Try ordering 40 folders by pushing them up or down one slot at a time.  It is
mightily tedious.

I can't seem to find a client that does this? Outlook on Mac doesn't,
nor does Mozilla Mail. I'm not saying not to implement this, what I'm
saying is that it might not be worth our time in the short term.
Plus has anyone outside the company actually complained about this?

For the record, I complained about this when I was outside of the
company. 

*** bug 207807 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

yeah but you dont put glue on your finger, lay the cards out all on
the table, and pick each one up one at a time and plonk it down in the
right spot - do you?

Shuffling cards is nothing at all like drag and drop.

Maybe a "Send to top" and "send to bottom" button would work better?

As someone from outside of ximian, I don't think this is useful. I'm
very happy with alphabetical ordering, which makes it easy to find
vfolders.

There are already the buttons Up/Down to move folders ( which I never
used ). 

bug#212600 it's much more important than this - make the default order
in vfolder editor alphabetical too, in time it's becoming a mess.

related to having top/bottom buttons, see bug 205616.

adding keywords

Covered by more generic bug 651270.

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 651270 ***