So here I am, 8 hours later telling you the story with no idea what to do next. Having this afternoon been ‘gifted’ with the bastard popup, I ran a system report on my MBP (OS 10.12.6), didn’t send to Apple until going into Apple Mail ( which I don’t use) to make my Gmail account the default as 6 months ago, a hosted account for my business failed after my wife got a new computer and Outlook for MAC (which was the default but is now only available as webmail) stopped working after she had Apple set up the Mail accounts on it. Categories Tutorials Tags Apple, Apple Mail, Email, Mac, OSX If the above didn’t work – or you have a different issue – leave a (public) comment below.

Click on the account you’d like to make the default, hold down the button, and drag it to the top of the accounts list.

The below instructions will help you change your default mail account in Mac OS X Mail 1.x:

Select the account you would like as default under “Send new messages from:” (or Send new mail from:) – this is under “Addressing:”).

To change the default email account in Mac OS X Mail: It just works 😉 Alter default account in Mac OS X Mail

Before we start: Google Workspace – get the App!īefore you get into this, if you are a Silicon Dales customer on Google Workspace, or you buy your Google Workspace direct (there’s no difference, except we manage the account for your company – the processes are the same!), then you should get the Gmail app for your iPad, iPhone or other Apple device, and access your mail through there. The instructions below will help you to set a different email account as the default on your Mac. If you operate multiple email accounts from your Apple “Mail” software, you might want to switch which account is used as the “default” account to perform certain actions, like sending a new email. Alter default account in Mac OS X Mail 1.

Before we start: Google Workspace – get the App!.

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