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Re: Mail: Order of accounts, default

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On 2015-10-07, John McWilliams <jpmcw@comcast.net> wrote:
> On 10/7/15   PDT 8:36 AM, Barry Margolin wrote:
>> In article <mv3cum$okh$1@dont-email.me>,
>>   John McWilliams <jpmcw@comcast.net> wrote:
>>
>>> It appears that mulitple accounts in Mail appear in alphabetical order,
>>> and there's no other way to change that order.
>>>
>>> The biggie for me is: Which account it defaults to when Inbox is
>>> selected and you hit Cmd-N for a new e-mail? How can I change that?
>>
>> Don't know if it's changed since, but in SL it's in
>> Preferences->Composing: "Send new messges from". You can choose a
>> specific default account or "Account of selected mailbox".
>
> Yes, it allows you to choose a specific account, but then doesn't permit 
> anything else.

You are not making sense. You should choose the specific account you
want to use by default in Preferences > Composing > Send new messages
from. Then when you start a new message, if you want to send from a
different account, you can simply click the "From" header to change it
to whatever account you wish on a case-by-case basis.

> Going back to "whatever account you choose" and then starting a new one 
> from the top Inbox still defaults to the one account I don't want to 
> send from.

It's not "whatever account you choose" read it carefully - it says
"Account of selected mailbox". If you choose this option, the From
header will be set to the account of whatever mailbox you are looking at
when you create the new message. And again, you can click the "From"
header in that new message to change the sending account to whichever
you wish on a case-by-case basis.

>>> And how does one get mail off the IMAP server and onto (only) the HDD?
>>> Making it easy means less sales of extra iCloud storage, but that's what
>>> I want to do.
>>
>> Create folders on your Mac, and move messages from the inbox (or other
>> server folders) to the local folders.
>
> Did one on the DT, dragged a few over to a new folder, but only one 
> came. And further attempts brings over just one at a time, all with a 
> .eml extension, which appears to be an alias type of file.

You misunderstood him. He wasn't instructing you to do anything on your
desktop. What he meant was you should create a mailbox in Mail (via the
Mailbox > New Mailbox menu command) and set the Location to "On My Mac",
which creates a local mailbox that does not exist anywhere but on that
computer. Then you can drag messages into that mailbox to store them
only on that computer.

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JR

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Mail: Order of accounts, default John McWilliams <jpmcw@comcast.net> - 2015-10-07 08:17 -0700
  Re: Mail: Order of accounts, default Barry Margolin <barmar@alum.mit.edu> - 2015-10-07 11:36 -0400
    Re: Mail: Order of accounts, default John McWilliams <jpmcw@comcast.net> - 2015-10-07 10:23 -0700
      Re: Mail: Order of accounts, default Jolly Roger <jollyroger@pobox.com> - 2015-10-07 17:51 +0000
        Re: Mail: Order of accounts, default John McWilliams <jpmcw@comcast.net> - 2015-10-07 13:35 -0700
          Re: Mail: Order of accounts, default Jolly Roger <jollyroger@pobox.com> - 2015-10-07 20:45 +0000
      Re: Mail: Order of accounts, default Barry Margolin <barmar@alum.mit.edu> - 2015-10-07 13:56 -0400
        Re: Mail: Order of accounts, default John McWilliams <jpmcw@comcast.net> - 2015-10-07 14:22 -0700

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