Hi, I don’t believe that what you’re asking for is possible in Apple Mail. The default folders are listed first in the MailBox list, each expandable to see there contents then they’re followed by the user created folders of each account. So, for example, you could see the following in the MailBox list:
InBox (Expandable. If expanded, you’ll see the InBoxes for the active accounts) Home Work (These two are examples of the two active accounts and are not expandable as they are just the specific InBoxes) Drafts (Expandable) Sent (Expandable) Trash (Expandable) Archived (Expandable) On My Mac (Expandable) Home (Expandable) Work (Expandable) Conferences (user created MailBox in the Work account) IT Info (user created MailBox in the Work account) Personnel (user created MailBox in the Work account) Safety (user created MailBox in the Work account) It’s important to note that when focused on the Mailboxes list, if you simply arrow down without Interacting with the table nor using VO keys, you will not hear the names of the expandable items thus getting yourself very confused as to what user created mailbox belongs to which account. So, after interacting with the Mailbox list, holding down your VO keys, you can go down through the list of Mailboxes knowing which belongs to which parent account. Also, regarding the Favourites bar, you can put any Mailbox you wish into it, InBoxes, user created Mailboxes, whatever Mailbox you believe important enough to place there and, thus, having quick access to by using a command key. For myself, I put a few primary InBoxes, my Sent, Trash and Drafts, using eight places in my Favourites bar. Therefore, no matter which Mailbox I’m currently in, command plus 1 through 8 gets me instantly to that specific Mailbox, with VO focused there as well. I don’t think that you can make Mail be just like Thunderbird, nor could we make it behave just like Outlook, and vice versa. Sorry. Later... Tim Kilburn Fort McMurray, AB Canada On Feb 2, 2015, at 18:55, The Believer <ancient.ali...@icloud.com> wrote: Tim and Alex, Thanks for the input. Is it possible to just forget Favorites and work with each account by itself? The Thunderbird setup works great for me. TB does have an option to unify all accounts which I never enabled. I was working with Mail today and trying to come to grips with it. I would like to be able to open any account and view all its contents under it. Its confusing. An example is that 2 accounts have an Archive folder. When I arrow down the mailbox table, they are listed one ofter the other in the list. I do not know which account they belong to. Another example is when I see the accounts in the table, there is an inbox above them, and all the subfolders as well as the rest of the default folders following the last account. So what I want to see is just the accounts unless I expand one. >From The Believer. . . . . . what if it were true? ancient.ali...@icloud.com On 2/2/2015 1:26 PM, Tim Kilburn wrote: > Hi, > > You can move the specific InBoxes you wish quick access to into the > Favourites bar. The beauty of this is that the order of things within the > Favourites bar corresponds to keyboard shortcuts. That is, the first mailbox > in the Favourites bar can be accessed with the keyboard shortcut cmd-1, the > second with cmd-2 and so on. You can usually use the VO-comma to mark and > VO-period to drop Mailboxes from the main Mailbox list over into the > Favourites bar. > > Later... > > Tim Kilburn > Fort McMurray, AB Canada > > On Feb 2, 2015, at 14:05, Matthew Dierckens <matt.dierck...@me.com> wrote: > > As far as I know, the only way to do this is for you to go to the mailboxes > table, and select the particular mailbox that way. > > God bless. :) > Matthew Dierckens > Certified Assistive Technology Specialist > Macintosh Trainer > Blind Access Training > www.blindaccesstraining.com <http://www.blindaccesstraining.com/> > 1-877-774-7670, extension 3 > work email: > matt...@blindaccesstraining.com <mailto:matt...@blindaccesstraining.com> > Personal email: > matt.dierck...@me.com <mailto:matt.dierck...@me.com> >> On Feb 2, 2015, at 15:43, The Believer <ancient.ali...@icloud.com >> <mailto:ancient.ali...@icloud.com>> wrote: >> >> Having used Thunderbird under Windows, I would like to use the same layput >> in Mac's Mail app. >> >> With 4 email accounts, I would like to open each account and view its own >> inbox, sent and so on, not as a unified setup as it is now under Favorites, >> Is this possible? >> >> From The Believer. . . >> . . . what if it were true? >> ancient.ali...@icloud.com <mailto:ancient.ali...@icloud.com> >> >> -- >> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups >> "MacVisionaries" group. >> To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an >> email to macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. >> To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. >> Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries. >> For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. > > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "MacVisionaries" group. 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