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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Dec 15, 2018 10:34 PM in response to rwzpv

Actually, when I look at the drip down FROM field WITHOUT yet enter the email address I’m sending to OR from- the drop down in FROM list reflects exactly the order I have email accounts set up in system preferences- internet accounts. ( I never noticed because it’s easy enough to just choose- then found out emails account remembers which one is used for each contacts)


perhaps you should change yours to order you want-because it seems that it actually is reflected there.


you mention that iCloud is at top of your list- well- mine is at bottom- because it was last account I set up. This tells me you must have set iCloud up first. That is why it appear first.


seems it can be done the way you want after all.



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