apple mail - choose sender e-mail

Hello fellow mac users,


In Apple mail, I used to be able to choose the sender's (me) e-mail address inside of the e-mail writing window, this from a pull-down menu. This was very handy to choose among my main e-mail address and its four aliases.

That pull-down menu doesn't show anymore and I can't seem to find an option for it.


Could anyone please give me some advice.


Thank you very much.


Best regards.

Mac mini, macOS High Sierra (10.13.6), (late 2014) 2,6 GHz i5, 8 Gb RAM

Posted on Jul 10, 2018 5:57 AM

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Posted on Jul 12, 2018 8:15 AM

Just to be sure: if you have multiple accounts, the "From" field in a message being composed should be a clickable menu. But it doesn't look like a menu unless you hover your cursor over it.

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Jul 12, 2018 6:46 AM in response to IIe

Hello and welcome to Apple Support Communities, IIe.
If I understand your post correctly, you are no longer seeing the option to select which of your email addresses to send a new email from while you're composing new mail. This is an important option when you use multiple email addresses. I'd like to help.
There are several options to select which account to send new mail from:

Send new messages from

The email address to use when you send messages.

If you use several email accounts, you can have Mail automatically select the best address, based on the email address of the first recipient in your message, as well as the currently selected mailbox and message.

To select these options, open Mail and click Mail > Preferences > Composing.
See the full article here:
Composing preferences
Let us know if that resolves this issue for you.
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