Mac Mail not sending from correct account.

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Mac Mail not sending from correct account.

I constantly use Mail to send and receive emails on my MacBook.

On it I have three email 'accounts' - my me.com address (for formal emails to work, banks etc.), my "junk" address (for spam, gaming etc.) and my "home" address (for personal emails and everything else).

When typing an email, if I choose to send it from a different account than the one I originally selected, I can just change it in the 'From' pop-down menu (under the 'To', 'Cc', 'Bcc' and 'Subject' fields).

Recently though, for some reason when I want to send an email from my "home" address, it sends it from my "junk"one instead, even if I am sending it 'From' my "home" address.

It still has my "home" address' signature, and not every time it does send from my "junk" one instead - rather it seems to send from both as it feels up to.

This bothers me quite a bit, especially when I send an important email using my "home" address but it sends from my "junk" - both confusing and annoying me and the recipients.

This only just started happening to me this past week. Does anyone else have the same issue, and any help would be greatly appreciated 😀

Mail-OTHER, Mac OS X (10.7.3), Mail version 5.2 (1257)

Posted on Apr 9, 2012 2:43 AM

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Answer 1

May 1, 2012 8:07 PM in response to garbagecharacter

Some mail servers such as gmail will change the address when sending from one account through another account's server.

Go into Mail's preferences under Accounts. Highlight each account and make sure the correct outgoing server is listed for that account with the correct user name and password. Each account should have their own. Check the box to use only that server with that account. Do this for all accounts.

If you don't check the box and the server fails, it will move on to the next one in the list. Then you will get the address from that server even though you're sending from a different account.

If the server does fail, you will get a selection box to try again or select another server.

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Answer 2

May 1, 2012 7:44 PM in response to garbagecharacter

I am having same problem did you get it fixed. I need help this is horrible becuase right now I am applying for different jobs giving some recruiters my email address but unknowingly sending emails from different accounts. It is a credability issue...... so mad

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Answer 3

May 1, 2012 8:15 PM in response to Glenn Leblanc

AWESOME!!! THANK YOU!!!!

I did in fact have two email accounts that did not have the box checked and those were the suspect accounts. Thank you. I would of never figured that out on my own.

MG

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