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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 10:51 AM, Jolly Roger wrote:
>> 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.
>
> Of course I am. I did not make clear enough my desires and knowledge of 
> how Mail works.

Your statement that "it allows you to choose a specific account, but
then doesn't permit anything else" doesn't seem to make sense to me,
considering it (a) permits you to set any account as the default and (b)
permits you to choose another account when you create the message.

>> 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.
>
> Yes, I know that, but want to avoid the wrong account being the default.

So set another account as the default. I don't see a problem.

>>> 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.
>
> Yes, I know this also. If I am showing all mailboxes, and start a new 
> message without choosing a specific account, I want it to be a certain 
> account as well as each mailbox, when chosen, to start with its address, 
> not the default.

You can't have it both ways. You can set a default account, -or- you can
let it use whatever mailbox is currently selected as the default.

>>>> 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.
>
> My reply and test did exactly what he suggested.

He wasn't suggesting for you to drag anything to your desktop.

> I do understand now it's done in Mail, which now seems
> straightforward. I understand now what Barry meant.

Great!

> Having a bad day?

No, are you?

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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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