When I try to forward an email in a mailbox (as opposed to the Inbox), it seems that Mail is automatically chosing an email adress to send from, but it is not the right one. Can account be selected as a default to use for forwarding? I understand that if I am in a specific Inbox, Mail selects that user to compose, reply or forward.
MacBook Air, OS X Mountain Lion (10.8.2)
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Basically you have to Forward an Email from the Email address that it was originally sent to. You can however have a default send from when composing a new Mail item, this can be found in
Mail Preferences, Composing, Send new messages from:
Thank you for your rsponse. The issue here is that if I receive an eamil addressed to email address#1, hit forward or reply, it comes up as being sent from email address#2. I have to manually select email address#1 to change it.
Sorry I don't think I can help on this one after seeing this thread https://discussions.apple.com/thread/4148125?start=0&tstart=0 suffice to say you'r in good company the thread is so far just 13 pages long. Good Luck. 😊
I don't know if this issue was resolved, but I came across a similar issue with my coworker's iPad Mini today. Whenever a message was forwarded from email #1, it would list email #1 as the reply-to address, but after sending it, email #2 is shown as the sender. So it looks like the email was sent from a different email account.
I fixed this by first making sure that all the SMTP servers were turned "on" for that email account (IMAP) and then modified the primary server's outgoing mail server information by:
And then save this information.
There's something similar to this on the desktop Mail application, in Preferences:
These directions were written based on my OS X version, but you should find something similar.
Let me know if this works for you. Good luck!
email forwarding selects wrong account
