how to reorder mail accounts?

It seems that Mountain Lion has reordered my list of accounts in the Mail.app and I cannot reorder them by dragging anymore. This is behaviour that many have complained about in iOS, so hopefully there is someway to accomplish reordering in Mountain Lion. Any suggestions?

PowerMac, OS X Mountain Lion

Posted on Jul 31, 2012 5:51 AM

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Mar 27, 2015 5:43 PM in response to LexCantabrigia

You have to go into internet accounts and go in and reorder them by deactivating mail and then you have to enter them in alphabetical order since that's how they're sorted. For example, if I had email address info@ and my name salvador@ but I wanted salvador@ to appear first, I would need to put

"asalvador@" and then info@ in order to have Salvador@ appear first in outgoing server to send mail. You can delete the "a" after it's been input, but make sure not to 'deactivate' the mail and then 'reactivate' it since you will have to start over.

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