Extra Account Name I cannot get ride of

Question

Hello,
I have 4 accounts in my Mail program. 2 of them are @earthlink.net and 2 are @mac.com.
I am in the process of switching over (hopefully) from Earthlink to Mac.
When I go into the Accounts under the Preferences area the 4 accounts show just fine.
When I send mail, all 4 accounts work fine. But when I reply from one of the @mac.com accounts a 5th name appears in the Accounts the pull down menu and the mail will not send. It is my name in front of the e-mail address. When I change the account to the another @mac.com account it sends fine,,
but it brings up this first one that does not work as the default.
I've looked in my address book to see if I added something wrong. I've also gone into when I made the alias and it does not appear there.
I probably messed something up when creating the accounts, so would like to get rid of this 5th one.
Any suggestion where else to look to get rid of this 5th name would be helpful.
My Mail is 2.0.7
Thank You
Jill
Sherwood, Oregon

Answer 1

Hello Jill.
Look for traces of the old mail account in the following places:
Preferences > Composing > Send new mail from
Preferences > Signatures
Another place to look at would be the outgoing server settings. Mail keeps information about outgoing (SMTP) servers in a separate list independently of the mail accounts themselves. The account settings just associate one of the available outgoing servers with each account. Deleting an account doesn’t remove from the list the outgoing server that was associated with it. Go to Preferences > Accounts > Account Information > Outgoing Mail Server (SMTP), choose Edit Server List from the popup menu, and delete any servers that shouldn’t be there. The Edit Server List panel shows the account each outgoing server is associated with.