Keyboard shortcuts for outgoing e-mail accounts work again in Mountain Lion

Jul 25, '12 07:30:00AM

Contributed by: kirkmc

This is definitely hint-worthy. One of the really great features that I missed in Lion is back in Mountain Lion. Originally described in this hint, you can set keyboard shortcuts for outgoing e-mail accounts.

Go to the Keyboard pane of System Preferences, then click on Application Shortcuts. Click on the + icon, and choose Mail from the Application menu. Then, enter the exact name of your account as it appears in the From popup menu when you create a new message. It will look like this:

First_name Last_name <my_email@my_host>
Make sure to include the angle brackets, and put a space before the first one. Choose a shortcut -- I chose Command-Option-Control and a letter for each account -- then click Add.

To use this, create a new message in Mail. If the default account isn't the one you want, just press your shortcut to set the message to go from a different account. You can set shortcuts for all you accounts, or merely one or two, if you have a lot.

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