How can I configure Mail in Mountain Lion to default the "from" field to match the account indicated by the "to" field of the message being replied to?

Same for me. I thought routing my email addresses through icloud would work but it doesn't. I've gone over to using Postbox until apple fixes this bug.

Hi, nautilus2104!

I HOPE that Apple fixes this bug and it's not a new "feature" that they introduced.

T.

I hope it's not a new "forced feature" that Apple love to force on us so much.

Just to reiterate: I've around 10 email addresses and when hitting reply to an email from any of them, the default email account is being used to reply, regardless of the account the email was sent to.

I'll fill in a bug with Apple.

I'm beginning to think this has something to do with rules. Any mail I haven't set up a rule for seems to be ok, but the mail that I have set up a rule for so it gets recieved into a sub folder to my inbox seems to be problematic. When I reply to this mail, it defualts to the wrong email address. Anyone else experience this?

I have around 8 POP3 email addresses, and some 70 associated aliases. I never use the actual "real" email addresses for sending email, only the alias appropriate to the reply. Basically any company I deal with gets its own custom email address for corresponding with me. That way if I get email purporting to come from BankXYZ, but the email address it is sent to is NOT BankXYZ@mydomain.com, then I know it is fraudulent.

The aliases are included as a comma separated list in my email accounts address. I have email in Mountain Lion set to respond from the mailbox in which mail is received, and select the alias from the dropdown list of mail addresses. In general, this is working at home in Mountain Lion, just like it did in Lion. However I had many issues with these addresses not being sent correctly when travelling with an iPad.

It seems to me that some (many?) popular mail services SMTP are now NOT passing through the reply from addresses they are given by Apple Mail. I am having problems specifically with Gmail, and with the largest ISP in Australia, BigPond (which these days is using Microsoft Live/Hotmail). If I can manage to convince Mail to use my home ISP (iiNet) SMTP while travelling (which often requires some strange security settings to bypass anti-spam attempts), then the reply address passes through correctly.

It seems to. I have rules that move emaisl out of their inbox to folders on my imac. The email in the inboxes of my 5 or 6 email addresses reply fine, the ones in the folders do not.

Stupid Featue/Bug.

Jeff

Same thing is happening to me whenever I reply from the Global Inbox. Only if I open the list of Inboxes and select the correct one, do I get the appropriate reply address. Used to work flawlessly in Lion.

exact problem for me.

Joe

Count me in on this problem too. I have several work related and other private emails (all POP3 accounts) fetched by my Google Apps account, then served to me through IMAP on different devices, including Mail in Mountion Lion.

Seeing that now whenever I reply to a work related mail (sent to my work email address), Mail will just my standard email account to send my reply from. This is quite annoying.

So far the only workaround I've found is to setup a rule so that when such work-related mails are recieved, they are moved to another inbox that has been setup to use that work-related email address. Unfortunately this means that once the mail has been moved there, it's out of Google Apps and I can no longer access the emails from other devices. But at least I don't have to change sender on every other e-mail I reply to.

This truly annoying!!! I have multiplue email accounts forwarding to iCloud and then rules set to move emails into the correct folder under iCloud. When I reply to a work email, Apple Mail uses my iCloud account. If I didn't have signatures assigned to specific accounts, I woud forget to look as to what account Apple Mail was replying from.

When is Apples going to fix this?

I want Mail to reply to email from the account it was recevied in, Not from iCloud.

Obviously you can set Apple Mail to "Send New Messages from" and select a specific account OR you can select use the currently selected account.

HELP APPLE!! GET THIS FIXED!

Before Mountian Lion - everything worked fine.

Same problem here.

Ugh.

I have the same problem, but it only appears when the e-mails that I reply first go to one of the folders (I use many folders with rules); so if I keep the e-mails on the general account inbox, it will reply from the correct "from" account; if the e-mail is in one of the folders, it will automatically change the "from" account to my hotmail account (in this case it's the first account on my inbox list of accounts).

Changing it manually is not practical, and it made me forget that a few times already, which is not good, especially when mixing work and personal e-mails.

Worked for me. I had the same problem and with adding the multiple addresses I am back to where I was in Lion. Thank you.

This is exactly my point! When I REPLY to a message, the reply From: address should be the same one that the original message was addressed To: !! This is how Mail (and, in fact, ALL email programs I have ever used since the beginning of email times have worked)

I don't want my casual contacts having my work/home email addresses, nor my family adding all 50 of my email addresses to their spam lists for sharing the latest Dilbert cartoon, nor any of the myriad other problems that can arise from inadvertently sharing the "wrong" email addresses with unintended recipients.

I see this as a serious bug. I hope that Apple will too. They tend to only recognize things as such when enough people scream about it. Otherwise the AppleJuggernaut just keeps rolling over us ad infinitum.

PS: Obviously, this is Apple's move to enforce a "One Email Per Person" law of the land. What do you need all those addresses for anyway, if you aren't doing something nefarious? God forbid you use encryption too! :-o (that is a joke, but undoubtedly how many actually feel about email.)

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Thanks for the plist edit tip (think I did the same prior to under leopard/snow leopard years back). I'm now back to normal under mountain lion. Was going crazy trying to remember to check the email addy sent from with the correct from name and from signature. Adding the email alias address alone as (also KB by Apple) others mentioned is definetly not the same.

This is more of "multiple identies" under one account, not just multiple email address aliases.