Sort mailboxes in Mail alphabetically. How?

How can I sort my mailboxes in Mail alphabetically. Have Catalina 10.15.7 on MacBook pro

MacBook Pro 13″, macOS 10.15

Posted on Dec 24, 2020 3:24 AM

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Posted on Feb 1, 2021 12:24 PM

  1. Close the macOS Mail app, if it is currently open.
  2. Launch Finder app. While pressing the option key on your keyboard, click onto the ‘Go‘ menu and then select ‘Library‘.
  3. Scroll down till you find the ‘Mail‘ folder and open the folder.
  4. Within the Mail folder, you will find one or more subfolders named like V1 / V2 / V3 …., in my case it is named ‘V6’.
  5. Trash all ‘Vx’-folders. Note: Do not finally delete them until you are sure you will not need them anymore.
  6. Launch macOS Mail app. All email accounts will be synced again. This can take a while. After the sync is complete, all of your mailbox folders are shown again in alphabetical order.


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Feb 1, 2021 12:24 PM in response to Barney-15E

  1. Close the macOS Mail app, if it is currently open.
  2. Launch Finder app. While pressing the option key on your keyboard, click onto the ‘Go‘ menu and then select ‘Library‘.
  3. Scroll down till you find the ‘Mail‘ folder and open the folder.
  4. Within the Mail folder, you will find one or more subfolders named like V1 / V2 / V3 …., in my case it is named ‘V6’.
  5. Trash all ‘Vx’-folders. Note: Do not finally delete them until you are sure you will not need them anymore.
  6. Launch macOS Mail app. All email accounts will be synced again. This can take a while. After the sync is complete, all of your mailbox folders are shown again in alphabetical order.


Apr 15, 2021 6:50 PM in response to glsp

I agree with glsp.


Thank you to Steve and others for their solutions. Unfortunately these solutions are not feasible for the majority of Apple users, who either would not fully understand what to do, or who might make an error and cause severe problems for their system.


Issues that are likely to affect many users should be provided as a feature using standard simple Apple interfaces, such as

Order Mailbox -> Alphabetically, By Date of Creation, etc.

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Sort mailboxes in Mail alphabetically. How?

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