Hi Chris! This might do the trick for you, but does not involve moving the accounts table but under the composing button you can pick which account all mail gets sent from! HTH Colin
On 23 Nov 2012, at 23:32, Christopher Gilland <[email protected]> wrote: > I have approximately 4 accounts set up in Mail on my Mac. > > Basically, the one that I want to be the default mail account is about 3 > accounts down in the table. So, when I go into mail, hit command+comma, > interact with the toolbar, then find the accounts tab, and select it, then > look at the table, I'm saying it's about the 3rd account down. I know a > sighted person can actually within that table, take the mouse and drag those > list of accounts in that table up and down and move them to the order they > want them to be. Which ever account is at the very top of the list becomes > your default account for sending mail. Let me clarify as I know some of you > on here, may get confused. I am not trying to set the default outgoing > server in the smtp server list. I'm not talking about that. I'm talking > about in that list of accounts in the accounts table within preferences under > the accounts tab. I've tried going to the table, and hitting vo+comma on the > account, then moving to the top of the table and hitting command+period, but > that tells m > e after pressing vo+comma that the selection is not dragable, which I darn > well know it is, as I had a sighted person do it for me once. I also > disabled cursor tracking with vo+shift+F3, then I found the account I wanted > to move, and routed the mouse pointer with vo+command+F5. Then, I did the > old fashion way of doing this, with vo+command+shift+space, then I moved up > to the top of the list, routed my mouse again with vo+command+F5, then did > another vo+command+shift+space to drop. That didn't work either. I knew it > wasn't gonna work, but just for all time sake, I even tried doing command up > and down arrow, as well as option up and down. I even did command option up > and command option down. I tried even with a shift key as well. I was just > trying any and every keystroke I could think that might move things up and > down like that in the table. I even went so far as to highlight the account > in the table, hit command+X to try cutting it, moved up to the top of the > list, th > en hitting command+V to try pasting it there up above. Even that! didn't > work. I'm at a total loss. I feel with the acception of having my mom just > come upstairs and do it for me from a sighted standpoint, I don't know any > other way to do this. I've exhausted everything that I know personally that > there is to try. I can't believe that they don't give you a move up, and > move down button in the preferences window, but they don't. If you have any > other idea, let me know what maybe I could try. I'd be incredibly interested > in any suggestions past what I already have done. > > Chris. > <--- Mac Access At Mac Access Dot Net ---> > > To reply to this post, please address your message to > [email protected] > > You can find an archive of all messages posted to the Mac-Access forum at > either the list's own dedicated web archive: > <http://mail.tft-bbs.co.uk/pipermail/mac-access/index.html> > or at the public Mail Archive: > <http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/>. > Subscribe to the list's RSS feed from: > <http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/maillist.xml> > > The Mac-Access mailing list is guaranteed malware, spyware, Trojan, virus and > worm-free! > > Please remember to update your membership options periodically by visiting > the list website at: > <http://mail.tft-bbs.co.uk/mailman/listinfo/mac-access/options/> <--- Mac Access At Mac Access Dot Net ---> To reply to this post, please address your message to [email protected] You can find an archive of all messages posted to the Mac-Access forum at either the list's own dedicated web archive: <http://mail.tft-bbs.co.uk/pipermail/mac-access/index.html> or at the public Mail Archive: <http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/>. Subscribe to the list's RSS feed from: <http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/maillist.xml> The Mac-Access mailing list is guaranteed malware, spyware, Trojan, virus and worm-free! Please remember to update your membership options periodically by visiting the list website at: <http://mail.tft-bbs.co.uk/mailman/listinfo/mac-access/options/>
