I am having trouble finding out how to change the order of my 6 email
accounts (some IMAP, some POP and even Hotmail). I want to put them in a
logical (for me) sequence and can't find out how to do it.
I have tried renaming, with numbers and drag drop. None of this works and I
am at a loss....
Accounts for POP mail do not have their own server listings in the Folders
pane, since all messages are downloaded to local folders. (Well, you _can_
also access the servers directly but without the ability to make server
subfolders.) If you like to keep these POP messages separated by account,
just make separate local folders named for the accounts "On My Computer",
and make POP rules in Tools/Rules/Mail/POP that move messages from each
account to the folder of the same name. Or you can even make separate
"inbox" and "Sent Items" (plus any others you want) as subfolders inside
each such POP account folder. Make POP rules to move the messages from each
POP account to the appropriate "Inbox" subfolder, and make Outgoing Rules to
move the sent messages to each "Sent Items" subfolder by account too. (Draft
messages will always remain in the central local Drafts folder, for all POP
accounts.)
But local folders will all be within "On My Computer", above the IMAP server
folders. There's nothing you can do about that.
Within the POP accounts, and within the IMAP accounts (separately), the
folders sort alphabetically. (Hotmail is mixed in with the IMAP accounts, as
a server account.) Each IMAP account (pus Hotmail) automatically has its own
main folder, with all the subfolders found on the server.
So if you want the POP account local folders, and separately the
IMAP/Hotmail accounts, in a particular order, you need to name them
alphabetically. You can give them any name (as accounts) that you want, at
the top of the main pane when you go to Tools/Accounts/Mail/[an
account]/Edit. You do not need to name it by the email address. Name it
anything that will identify it and keep it in the alphabetical order that
sorts it the way you want. You can start with "1", "2", "3" etc. before the
name if that makes it easier to sort in order.
A tip: instead, if there's just one you want to bring to the top of the
list, you can begin its name with an option-space (hold down Option key as
you type the space bar). Unlike a regular space at the beginning of a word,
that is not removed when you move out of the text box or close the window.
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Paul Berkowitz
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