How to set an email address as the default for a new message

Simple question I hope. How do I set Mail so that a new mail message is linked to a preferred account? At the moment when I click "compose new message", the default account is my me.com address. It only takes a moment to select my preferred account in the drop-down menu, but I never had this issue before and I can't figure it out in preferences. Thanks.
Tom

Open mail then mail-preference-composing and in the middle "Send new messages from" use the drop down menu to choose your prefered account.

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Hi,
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http://answers.microsoft.com/en-us/ie/forum/ie9-windows_7/disable-suggested-sites-does-not-work/4ba064b1-1c6e-43f1-939e-2db1d335b2ef
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