how do i tidy up the "from" list on apple mail

[tdenson]

When I compose an email and drop down the "From" list I get 26 email addresses in that list. I can find no way of tidying it up.

 

[arn]

Isn't that a list of your email accounts?

In preferences -> Composing, you can have it default to one in particular. Not sure if that helps.

arn

 

[tdenson]

No. I have 13 email accounts but 26 From addresses. Some of those are historical I want to get rid of.

 

[arn]

Ah. must be a weird cache issue. If I turn off an account (Uncheck Enable this account), it drops out of my From list

 

[tdenson]

Yes, the same happens for me, but I also have all the historical entries. e.g. I have an Apple id myname@me.com and in the dropdown there is myname@me.co @mac.com and @icloud.com. But also a dozen other mailboxes that I don't even have an entry for in my malboxes (although they are all current valid email addresses I own). It's not just academic. Some of them appear to be mislabelled and I sent an email earlier today to a financial organisation that was insisiting it came from one particular address of mine and it went from one of my other addresses. It's a right mess and I would dearly love to tidy it up.

 

[rumorguy]

if an outdated email address pops up, i go into mail>window>previous recipients. type in name in search. you can delete unwanted addresses. but if an address is still in contacts edit that out.

 

[tdenson]

I know all about the previous recipients feature which I use frequently but I am not talking about remembered recipients, I'm talking about email accounts.

 

[BrianBaughn]

Did you follow these instructions? You weren't specific as to what you did.

Use email aliases in Mail on Mac

In Mail on your Mac, use email aliases to help keep your real email address private.

support.apple.com

 

[tdenson]

Did you follow these instructions? You weren't specific as to what you did.

Use email aliases in Mail on Mac

In Mail on your Mac, use email aliases to help keep your real email address private.

support.apple.com

Thank you. I have posted this on several forums but you are the first person to mention aliases. I have done some tidying as a result, still not completely tidy but a lot better.