Hi Pat,

Mail > Preferences > Composing - Send New Messages from:  Select the Account 
you wish to use or Account of selected mailbox.

Cheers,
Ronni

17" MacBook Pro 2.3GHz Quad-Core i7 “Thunderbolt"
2.3GHz / 8GB / 750GB @ 7200rpm HD

OS X 10.7.4 Lion
Windows 7 Ultimate (under sufferance)

On 10/08/2012, at 12:42 PM, Pat <clamsh...@iinet.net.au> wrote:

> I have 3 email accounts and use different ones for different purposes. Up 
> until the advent of Mountain Lion, my preferred account was number 2 in the 
> list. Seemingly, Mail managed to learn this, so this was what popped up on 
> new message forms.  
> 
> However, ML always pops up the first account address. If I don't happen to 
> notice it, it can cause days of delay before the mail daemon sends a "not 
> accepted" message and I realise my letter was not delivered. I have tried to 
> re-order the list of accounts in Mail preferences, but that doesn't seem to 
> work.
> 
> Is there any way I can designate Number 2 as the preferred account?
> 
> Thanks,
> Pat

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