Default outgoing email account

How do I change the default outgoing email?
Just noticed that the email to response my emails is not the one I wanted to be, my iPad receives mail from 6 different accounts
Somebody can tell me how can I change it?

@Matthew: By "Settings>Mail, Contacts, Calendars"  I presume you meant "System Preferences>Mail, Contacts, Calendars".
There *is* a list of my mail accounts there, but I'm seeing no option to "select the DEFAULT account for new messages".
Am I missing something?
[ Mountain Lion 10.8 ]
UPDATE:
Here's what I found on CNET (and worked):
Mail.app>Preferences>Composing>
Then there is option to choose "Send new messages from"
[NB: The Mac term is not "Settings"; it's "Prefernces" [ Command-. ]
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