BT Yahoo E-mail - how to protect my primary addres...

Question

I've just joined, and it looks like a good time to join as I've only
found 11 postings to check on 'BT Yahoo E-mail'. I've also tried
the BT website but I get confused with the many different
names, and confused between Yahoo and BT Yahoo. If you
are in a hurry skip the next paragraph.
After about 20 years with dial-up BT internet using a very short
E-mail address (I thought this was clever at the time) I still collect
tons of spam on that account (now PAYG, kept in reserve).
So when I upgraded to BT Broadband (Option 1) I chose a new, long,
muddled primary address which, of course, is also my address for accessing
the broadband service. I have decided only to use BT Yahoo
webmail and only to use the 'disposable' addresses provided by
'Address Guard'. But, of course, whenever I wish to send mail the default
sending address is my primary address and I am worried that sooner
or later I will use this by mistake when I wish to keep it to myself.
Question) Is there any way I can select one of my 'Address Guard' addresses
instead of my primary address to be the default address for sending e-mails
using BT Yahoo?
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Answer 1

Thanks to Andy_N, 86sixsix and Ectophile for some ideas but it looks as if
I have failed to describe the problem sufficiently clearly, for which I apologise.
I have no problems in sending messages 'as from' Address Guard
'disposable addresses', which appear in the 'reply to' field and the
replies are indeed addressed this way and they arrive OK.
All these disposable addresses are associated with my primary address.
I realise I can set up sub-addresses, and perhaps I can create
a new set of disposable addresses attached to these (I'm not
asking about this), but this would then move my 'problem' to the
sub-address and I would need to migrate all my traffic to a new set
of disposable addresses.
I'll try to re-state the problem -
I send all E-mails via BT Yahoo each using one of about 100 different
addresses of the form [email protected].
I go to 'mail' > 'New' and I have a drop-down menu in the 'From'
box listing all these addresses in alphabetical order together with
my primary address, which happens to be at the bottom, and which
would otherwise be at the top, which is highlighted in blue for
selection. So if I'm 'tired and emotional', or just plain careless,
I might just click on this one first instead of scrolling up to the wanted
address and so I would be sending an E-mail from my primary
address which I do not wish to reveal (because I could not
extinguish any resultant spam by withdrawing that address from
use). What I would like to do is have the BT Yahoo system
offer me one of my disposable addresses as the default choice
so that any carelessly-sent message will go from a disposable
address. Better still I would like to have to 'unlock' something
ibefore my primary address.even appeared in the list.
So I'm expecting to learn either that this cannot be done within
BT Yahoo as it is, or that there is a mechanism for doing this but
I have failed to find it in the documentation, or that there is a
mechanism for doing this but it is undocumented, or that an
administrator is able to make this happen at my request.
If this facility is not available within BT Yahoo I hopethat I am not
alone in wanting it.