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I am having a problem with my mail account. I send emails from one account, and the replies are going to another email address. The two are very similar, only differentiated by one letter, but it is a huge inconvenience. How do i fix this?
MacBook Pro, Mac OS X (10.7.3)
Loging into separately means that one is not being treated as an alias. Just needed to be sure they were truly seperate individual gmail accounts. That would have made a big difference.
And you could use the default port, but I prefer using the custom port. I've found in the past, the delays were longer for a failure message to occur when using the default port.
As I said, be sure the check box is checked to use only that server for the account and make sure it is the correct one. You can test it by sending yourself a message from one account to the other, and then do it in reverse.
You will know in the future when sending a message if the server fails to connect, a message should appear tell you that the server fails and should give the option to use another. It happens from time to time.
Hopefully, it clears it up for you.
In Addition to clarify my first post FYI:
You could have used another option other than creating another SMTP server in Mail. In my first post, note in the image (in the "Send As section") I have added my att.net account. The reason for this is I can use the gmail server to send messages from my att.net account. At one time, the att servers were always down and I used the gmail server to send my messages.
As I said, the default in GMail when sending a message from a different account throught it is that gmail changes the address "sent from" to the gmail address it is sent through. By adding the att.net account to it and creating the right settings, it sends the messages through as the correct att.net address and does not change it to the gmail address.
Since you only had the one SMTP address in the list, the user account and password used was the default sending account. When you sent from the other gmail account, it changed the address when it hit the server to the default and that's what the reciever got. That's why I asked if you had the other account set to it. You would have had to check what server settings you had in Mail to know which gmail account to look at though. It would have been the one with the user name and password set up in mail. Then you could have added the other gmail account to it at the website settings so it would retain the correct "from address".
This may help clear up what was probably happening to you.
Problem With Mail
