Apple Mail - 2 questions

First off, let me explain the system I have set up. Before I got a Mac, I had a gmail account which I used as my main account. I also had a university account and I forwarded all university mail to the gmail account. The cool thing about gmail is that it has this function where I can not only read but send emails from my Gmail ID or my University ID. This is handy because it allows me to use gmail all the time (whether I'm emailing a friend or emailing a professor) rather that having to sign in to my university's server to email my professors.
Now, I use Apple Mail which is linked only to the Gmail account that is linked to my University account (hope you get that). The only problem is when I send mails through Apple Mail, it will only send them using my Gmail ID rather than my university ID. I've tried going to Preferences and selecting my outgoing mail server (SMTP) to my university's server but whenever i send a mail through Apple Mail it still sends it out from the Gmail server. What can I do to fix this problem?
Also, when I access Gmail from another computer and send mails, it goes to my Apple Mail as an unread message. How do I set up a filter so that any message sent by me will be "Marked as Read" when it gets to Apple Mail?

Well that stinks. There's no point in me adding the reply-to address if my professors still see that I sent the original mail from my gmail account. A lot of my professors don't read their emails unless if it comes from a University address. In fact, if I try to send a mass email to the class through a non-university address (even with a reply-to my uni address) it will not work.
So can I do this?
1. Keep my gmail account linked to my Uni account (this is a must)
2. Set up Apple Mail so that it receives email from both University account and Gmail account
3. Set up a rule so that all mail from my Gmail account that was sent To: [email protected] is not downloaded or immediately deleted? That way the mail downloaded from my University account is only downloaded once to Apple Mail.

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abcdefghij wrote:
Not sure if this is an Apple or Verizon question ... last night I had an issue sending email ... why would two accounts on the same computer have to use two different Verizon outgoing mail servers in order to send email? ...
P.S. ... based on input from this forum, I ignored Verizon's "urgent" email from back in March about changing mail settings.
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