Also, make sure you check “use column layout” in view menu of Mail app. So press vo+m to move to the menu bar, vo+right arrow until you hear “View”, vo+down arrow untill you find “use column layout’ and press enter on this.
Andrew > On 11 Feb 2026, at 03:31, Frank Ventura <[email protected]> > wrote: > > COMMAND SHIFT M usually fixes that issue. > >> On Feb 10, 2026, at 12:15 PM, Herbie Allen <[email protected]> wrote: >> >> I think you managed to disable the side bar. >> >>> On Feb 10, 2026, at 08:44, Steve Matzura <[email protected]> wrote: >>> >>> That would be good advice if it actually worked. Right now, I'm stuck in >>> the Sent folder of one of the two mailboxes I have. If I Shift-TAB, I go to >>> the Messages table. Another Shift-Tab takes me to the All Sent (toggle >>> button) folder. Pressing VO-Spacebar doesn't toggle anything.If I TAB back >>> to the Messages table and then Shift-TAB to go backwards again, every >>> subsequent press of Shift-TAB takes me to a previous folder (toggle button) >>> in some list. I eventually get to the All Inboxes folder, but I can't see >>> any other mail accounts. VO-J doesn't do anything for me either. If I move >>> to that list of folder names all of which say "toggle button" and then try >>> to expand them, I go directly back to the Messages table in the Sent >>> folder. I'm being held prisoner by my own computer! LOL. >>> >>> >>> Mention was made to turn off Show Categories in the View menu. It's already >>> off. Come to think of it, so is just about everything else. >>> >>> >>> On 2/10/2026 12:56 AM, Krishnakant Mane wrote: >>>> I had a different issue understanding the mail app. >>>> Although I am not facing the same issues mentioned in this thread, I never >>>> realised that all the mail boxes are expanded by default and they never >>>> collapse. >>>> The simple way of navigating is to do a ctrl + option + up arrow and then >>>> move using up and down arrows to navigate different folders. >>>> Then do tab and shift tab >>>> So when you move between folders you will hear inbox, sent, draft … etc. >>>> If you have more than 1 email account set then this cycle of inbox, sent, >>>> … will repeat that many times. >>>> Then once you locate your folder just press tab once or perhaps 2 times to >>>> get to the list of emails. >>>> Regards. >>>>> On 10 Feb 2026, at 5:33 AM, Hamit Campos <[email protected]> wrote: >>>>> >>>>> Hi Steve, was Mail better in the past? How different was it? I’m having >>>>> this same problem and it’s really annoying especially from someone coming >>>>> from windows and outlook where you can just F6 and shift F6 and it’s >>>>> really easy to switch accounts it I’m still keeping an old PC around >>>>> Sent from my iPhone >>>>> >>>>>> On Feb 9, 2026, at 6:59 PM, Steve Matzura <[email protected]> wrote: >>>>>> >>>>>> Great googly moogly but the Mail app sure is different than it was on >>>>>> the previous version of macOS. So different, in fact, that I can’t get >>>>>> it to work at all! At first, I was stuck, unable to choose which of two >>>>>> male accounts I wanted to read. Then, when I got into one of them, now I >>>>>> am stuck in a folder I don’t care about and out of which I cannot get. >>>>>> What happened? How do I learn this? Looking for a lifeline! 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