IOS 6 Mail default reply address - random

Ever since switching to iOS 6 my mail reply does not list the proper address as the default.
I use IMAP with Gmail.  I have multiple addresses entered in the Email field in the preferences.  In previous iOS versions, it obeyed the default I have set in Gmail.  Now with iOS 6, it picks a random address as the default.  Very annoying.  It's different on my iPad and my iPhone even though the same addresses are listed and of course, in Gmail I have an address set to default.  If I click to change which address I want to use, the list comes up fine.  It's just that Apple Mail does NOT respect the default setting.  Strange.
No other iOS had this problem.  It's only iOS 6. It's also ONLY Apple Mail.  Sparrow obeys Gmail defaults just fine.
Can we expect a fix for this soon?

Thank you mr.ipa.  I appreciate the tip.
That is not however the issue I am having.  I have entered in my email preferences a number of addresses I use when creating or replying to an email.  They are separated with commas.  This is exactly how email works on Mac OS X.  When I compose an email, the app chooses a default.   What used to happen is that iOS Mail respected the default account set in my Gmail web account.  All of iOS since about 3.0 did this perfectly.
Now with iOS 6 it does not.  It chooses an address at random.  It's not alphabetical, it's not anything.  I can change the order of the way they are typed in my list, yet iOS still picks a random address.  It is different on my iPhone and on my iPad yet they have the same info in the list in the same order.
It was a dark day for iOS and Mac OS X when Google bought Sparrow.  With Sparrow you can designate which address you would like to use as your default and change it in the fly when composing.  In Apple iOS Mail, you can change it on the fly, but it will NOT let you select a default address to use.
Very frustrating. 
Apple seems intent on NOT allowing defaults for many of their apps.  I think this is a big mistake.  I should be allowed to select a default email address, a default app for opening images, a default for listening to music and most of all - a default web browser!!!  Didn't MS get slammed in Europe over that very thing??
Anyway, I am still looking for Apple to supply a fix that allows you to set your prefered email address in Apple iOS Mail.

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