In Apple Mail, why are all your email accounts listed in the sidebar in small caps, and then all listed again down the sidebar in CAPS?

Asked by delta77 (196

) August 18th, 2009

What is the difference, and why does Apple Mail have your email address accounts listed twice in the sidebar? It seems that the all CAPS email accounts towards the bottom of the sidebar have folders in them for Sent, SPAM, etc., when you click on the disclosure triangle to the left of the email address. Well, anyway, what is the point of the this? What is the difference between the two listings of your email accounts, and can this be changed in Preferences? Thanks.

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The small caps word is the name of the account: it’s a name you picked out, like Home or Work or School. The contents of these accounts are the various folders on the server in these accounts. I have:

>GOOGLE
[Gmail]
[Family]
[Spam]
[Trash]

And so on: Google is the name I gave to the account, and the [] indicates various folders (“tags” in Gmail’s parlance) on the server itself.

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