How do I change my primary E-mail account?

I've currently got two e-mail accounts set up in Mail, one a .mac account and one my Comcast.net account. I rarely ever use my .mac account, always using my Comcast account. When I send a new e-mail from Mail, it goes out via my Comcast account. But for some reason, anytime I click on an e-mail link in Firefox or Safari, it sends the e-mail from my .mac account, which is not what I want. I don't want to delete my .mac account from Mail to make this work. There must be a way to tell Mail which account is my primary account. I've searched Help and I've searched this forum and have been unsuccessful in finding any help at all. I'm sure it's a simple thing but I can't figure this out. If it helps at all I'm new Apple user, just recently converted from Windows. So it's possible I'm looking in the wrong place.

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I assume that you are talking about web browser links that create a new message in mail? If you are talking about web mail it will always go from the web mail service you are logged into
In mail when you have a new message you can select the account it is sent from in the drop down list just below the subject line
I believe that the next new mail defaults to the last account you used so if you just used .mac mail with mail the next time you send I believe it will start there until you change it
If mail is not running it will use the top account in the list - to change that open your mail preferences ==> accounts and drag your comcast account to the top of the list if it is not there
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