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change the order of Mac Mail accounts

Anyone know how to rearrange the order Apple imposes on my Mac Mail accounts?

I have multiple email addresses, but use one professionally nd one other for Family and Friends. Apple has now made it impossible to get those accounts ahead of my least used accounts. Apple insists on:

  1. Placing iCloud at the top of the list, ASSuming ALL Apple users are so computer illiterate that they have to rely on some wizard at Apple to set up their email.
  2. Forcing my rarely used Yahoo email account above my actual personal accounts. I only have one because I use a few Yahoo groups and Verizon requires a Yahoo ID to be able to manage them.
  3. Putting my personal accounts in alphabetical order! Turns out my professional account begins with a letter further down the alphabet that my family and friends account.

Designing Mail, and now most products for the lowest common denominator tells me Apple has

written off professional and knowledgeable users. No wonder MS is now the more valuable company.

Posted on Dec 6, 2018 4:16 PM

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Posted on Dec 7, 2018 4:33 PM

With mail open on Mac, there is sidebar with list of email accounts (inboxes)


Put the mouse on one that you wish to put on top. you will see line (see screenshot) and you can drag and drop it above the others.


Do this with each one you want move to the order you want to appear.

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