Q: Default SMTP settings

Choose your default sender off this list:

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As Grant said, you can make an email account the default.

Each email account provider has it's own SMTP server.

The very last sentence in Duane's post is accurate and you must read and understand it.  All mail App's use there own SMTP Servers and you won't be able to use just one to handle different e-mail accounts.

Cheers to you and Good Luck

Don Morgan

Donald Morgan

I was attempting to answer the query about default email sender for new emails.

All mail [Accounts] use there own SMTP Servers

Absolutely correct.

you won't be able to use just one to handle different e-mail accounts.

It turns out Mac Mail is highly configurable, and, in fact, with a little work you could use just one SMPT Server for all sending. This is not the way most people use it, but it could be done that way.

You might set it up that way to encourage your corresponders to switch to a new incoming Mail Account while you worked on phasing out an old one that you intended to discontinue.

I have no doubt that you could configure Mail to use one SMPT server for all sending... but not all messages would succeed. Typically the sending SMTP server verifies the domain that you are using to send the email and only accept messages sent with their domain in the address.

For example, an email from joe@google.com can not be sent via the Apple SMTP iCloud servers. The Apple SMTP iCloud servers will only accepting sending addresses of .mac, .me, and .icloud.