You can change the order in Favorites, but not in Settings, Accounts. Changing the order in favorites does not change the global default.
And I don¡¯t actually want to change the global default for all ¡°On My Mac.¡± I want Mail to associate replies with the account that originally received the email, even though that email is now in ¡°On My Mac.¡±
What intrigues me is that when I address a new mail to the MacSupport address, the From changes to the correct account, even when that is not the account I¡¯m currently viewing. BUT it does not do this for a reply! Why not? It somehow knows what account the MacSupport address is associated with but only makes the change if I manually enter the address.
So why not when I reply to those same addresses?
Cheers,
tod
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On Mar 7, 2024, at 1:17?PM, Paul via groups.io <paul@...> wrote:
Hi
I thought that the upper most account in the All inboxes was the default sending if you don¡¯t send directly from an account.
Want to try moving the list order and see if you can get the sending option you want?
Paul
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On Mar 7, 2024, at 10:14?AM, todhop <hoplist@...> wrote:
?I've had a longstanding problem with Apple Mail selecting the wrong ¡°From¡± address when the currently selected email is ¡°On My mac¡±. This is quite annoying when viewing mail that is filtered to On My Mac because Apple selects my iCloud address by default, which is incorrect.
I am set to ¡°automatically" select the From address. Mail is supposed to base this on the currently selected mailbox, but ¡°On My Mac¡± mailboxes seem to be associate with your Apple ID. That makes some sense, but extremely unhelpful.
What I want is for replies to be associated with the account that received that mail in the first instance.
I¡¯ve tried ¡°Get Info¡± for On My Mac folders to change the associated account by folder. Though it seems to let me switch, it does not stick.
When I address a new email to this list, the From changes from the default to the correct From account, but I don¡¯t know why. And this does not happen when replying to a MacSupport email, only when manually addressing a new email.
Any thoughts on how to control this automatic behavior so I don¡¯t have to remember to change the from address every time I reply to a list message?
Cheers,
tod
todhop