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"Send [email] from Selected Account..." is nearly random. Anyone else?

+I don't think its just me, but maybe it is:+

Do other people have issues with multiple email accounts
in that sending an email with this preference set, tends to be almost random?:

You can send email to a person you have emailed a hundred times, but if you don't double-check the source account - and it may go from the WRONG account. It wasn't the SELECTED account, it may not even be a
much used account (email address).

You can fire 2 emails back-to-back, to 2 different destinations, and the 2nd seems to have arbitrarily
selected another account to send from.

This is more than a little bit galling, if you intend to email certain people ONLY from a special account.
Say, for example, people who indulge in viral emails, etc.

Eventually half your contacts have half your email addresses - and now you are in spam **** again,
as soon as one of your recipients sends one of these viral emails out in a group email.

iMac, Mac OS X (10.6.6)

Posted on Jan 19, 2011 12:57 PM

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Mar 4, 2011 3:52 PM in response to bikerk

What exact version of Mail and OSX please -- we are exchanging posts here in the forum for Snow Leopard and Mail 4.x, but your system info reports 10.5.4?

Is the cloud panel for MobileMe residing in System Preferences?

In Mail Preferences/Accounts/Account Information which account is listed first?

In Mail Preferences/Accounts/Account Information for the other account, is there a SMTP listed in box beside Outgoing Server. Is the box beside Use this server only selected below the name of the SMTP?

Ernie

Mar 4, 2011 4:14 PM in response to bikerk

Do this -- remove the com.apple.mail.plist file from Home/Library/Preferences. For safety, make a duplicate of the Mail folder (Home/Library/Mail) and drag that copy to your Desktop for temporary backup.

Quit Mail, remove the plist file, relaunch Mail and Decline to import anything, instead simply re-enter your account(s) setup info. Mail should then rediscover the existing account folder(s), but this should freshen everything in the preference file. You will likely need to reselect to send new messages from the account of the selected mailbox.

Ernie

"Send [email] from Selected Account..." is nearly random. Anyone else?

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