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How to automatically select the best email account in macOS Sierra

Did you know that you can have Mail in macOS Sierra automatically selects the best email account for a new message based on who the email is addressed to and what mailbox you selected when our began composing your new email. Well, you can. Here’s how:

With Mail up and running, click Mail, then Preferences from the top menus.

Click on the Composing tab.

There’ll be a drop-down next to “Send new messages from.” Choose that to view your options.

(This how-to is based on my experiences and info on Apple’s support pages — where the images come from.)

Dennis Sellers
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Dennis Sellers is the editor/publisher of Apple World Today. He’s been an “Apple journalist” since 1995 (starting with the first big Apple news site, MacCentral). He loves to read, run, play sports, and watch movies.