I have three email accounts that I use two different Mail apps to manage on my iPhone 5 (iOS 10.3.4). I read two accounts with Apple Mail, and one with myMail. This allows me to keep work and personal accounts separate. Unfortunately all three accounts are always available as the sender in Mail even though myMail only sends from the accounts it manages. This means that I sometimes accidentally send mail from the wrong account when using Mail. Is there any way to restrict the accounts that Apple Mail can use, so that Mail can only use the accounts it manages like myMail only uses the account it manages?
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Follow these steps:
- Open Mail and delete each of the conflicting accounts. Close Mail.
- Go to ~/Library/Mail/ and make sure any IMAP-username123@imap.gmail.com folder has been deleted. If there is any such folder left, delete it now.
- Open Mail and create one of the accounts and let Mail load your messages. Close Mail.
- Go to ~/Library/Mail/ and verify that a folder called IMAP-username123@imap.gmail.com has been created.
- Open ~/Library/Preferences/com.apple.mail.plist. If you have installed Xcode, this file will open with Property List Editor. Otherwise you can download a free trial of PlistEdit Pro to open this file. Using a plain text editor with .plist files is more difficult.
- With the .plist file open, click the disclosure triangle for MailAccounts. Here you will find Item 0, Item 1, etc.
- If you click the disclosure triangle for each of the Item headings, you will find that one of them has the value username123@gmail.com or username123@company.com for the AccountName key, depending on which account you created in step 3.
- Change the value for AccountPath for this Item so that the path will not collide with that of the next account you are to create.
- Save and close the .plist file.
- Open Mail and let it reload your messages. Close Mail.
- Go to ~/Library/Mail/ and verify that a folder with the path value you provided in step 8 has been created. Delete the old folder called IMAP-username123@imap.gmail.com.
- Open Mail and create the remaining account normally and let Mail load your messages.
Under Accounts in Preferences, there's a field there called "Email Address:". You can put a comma-separated list of addresses in there, like this:
Now your "Compose" window will have a "From" popup menu that lets you choose your sending address:
AFAIK, this works for pretty much any mail account type, as long as your mail provider allows you to muck around with the From: header.
Best Answer
As resolved in comments, the account got added in mail app too. It can be removed from Settings → Passwords and Accounts.
For temporary fix, setting a default account under Mail Preferences can help.
Outgoing server's settings can be also disoriented under the Account's Server settings IF it is a work account and allows interface like: