Favorite Mailboxes for Quick Access

In this video, we’re going to look at how we can favorite mailboxes in the Mail app on the Mac. Let’s go to my Mac.

Let’s open up my Mail app. When we are looking at our mail on the left side, you’re going to see we have our different mailboxes here in the sidebar. These are Favorites. If we go up to the top, you’re going to see it says Favorites. What we can do is we can customize what is shown in these favorites. As an example, let’s say you do not use VIP. So you do not want to see that in your favorites. All you do is just control-click on it, hold down the control key, and click, and then you’re going to see Remove from Favorites, and now it is no longer in my favorites. It is not in my sidebar at all.

What about mailboxes? You can remove mailboxes as well. Let’s go up to All Mailboxes. If I control-click on it to get my menu, you will see it says Remove from Favorites. So now I select this, and I no longer have my mailboxes in my Favorites.

So how do I check my mail? Well, what I’ll need to do is go down to the individual mail accounts. You’re going to see I have iCloud and Dan’s Tutorials. To view each one of these, what I do is I click on the inbox for the respective mailbox or mail account. To show iCloud, I go over to the right-click on the arrow, and now I’m looking at my iCloud again. But what I like to do is I do like to have my inboxes in my Favorites. So how do we add this to my Favorites now? Well, what I could do is I could control-click on this and then add it to my favorites. And it’s going to add this one mailbox to my Favorites. I select it, and we can see we have my one mailbox. I do not have my mailbox from Dan’s Tutorials in here. What I would like to do is I would like to add both of them to where we had that All Inboxes, so I could check all of my mail. How do we do that? Well, if we go back up under Favorites here, you’re going to see we have a little + to the right. When I click on this, I’m able to select what mailbox I want to add. And one of my options here is All Inboxes. I select this; I click on okay. And now we can see we have all inboxes again. I click and drag to move it up to the top where I like it, and now all my inboxes are up at the top.

So that’s how we organize our Favorites in Mail on the Mac. Our Favorites is where we can store various mailboxes, including all of our inboxes, individual mailboxes, and folders. To remove or add any item. We control-click on it. If it’s in your Favorites, you can remove it. If it is not in your Favorites, you can add it to your Favorites. And then, if you go to the right of Favorites, you’re going to see a +, and from there, you can also add various mailboxes.

So that’s how we favorite our mailboxes in the Mail app on the Mac.