Configuring "From" Field on Sent Mail?

This morning my e-mail server was switched from my historic one (TDS or its predecessors) to Gmail --- no choice! Reconfiguring Apple Mail was convoluted... but I think that my initial difficulty stems from my attempting to send an e-mail to myself! Apparently this is forbidden in Gmail. It took some time to recognize this being the reason why I could receive mail, but could not send!
My remaining question is how to change the address that appears in the "From" field as received by recipients.
Both the address that is now posted as well as my original address work; I merely wish to show my original address so as not to confuse recipients.
Thanks, Keith

In the preferences for your account - under account information - set the email address to your old email name@server and the Full Name to whatever you want it to show - but make sure to have the correct info in the Incoming Mail Server, User Name and Password fields.
Basically Mail uses the info in the bottom of that dialog to communicate with the server - but uses the info in the top to populate the fields on the email itself.
Watch out though - as the auto forwarding of the old email address may only work for a limited time - 6 months or a year maybe - then it may get shut off.
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my problem is how to set a default outgoing email address so that my recipients always get from a certain (eg work) email address when i am at work. at work, anything i send, i want to show my work email without always having to manually select the "FROM" field in the outgoing email.
( aside: i had read that Mail version 3 was supposed to auto-select any reply so that the reply would come from the same email i orginally sent as. this does not work on my mac.)
This problem is exacerbated as Mail auto-rotates between my 4 email accounts/aliases (which are all listed (correctly) in the FROM field. it would be great if this list could be fixed with a default FROM address.
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i have tried deleting the home/library/preferences/com.apple.mail.plist. that is fine, but any .mac aliases (which i do use, but i dont want to be listed in the "FROM" field) are listed in the "FROM" field, and are auto-switched through my Mail again.
i looked through Rules and Automator, but no obvious help there. any thoughts?

Did you try Preferences > Accounts > Account Information and entering these other email aliases in the Email Address: field, separated by commas? That would give you a pop-down menu in the New Message window letting you choose which alias to use when sending an email.
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This is a weird one.
I have a gmail work email account that has been set up for me. There's a primary email address assigned to it, and a secondary one (which is the one I want to use).
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