Mail e-mail account problem

I have a very annoying problem. (I specify that my preference setting (under "Composing") is "Send new messages from Account of selected mailbox")
For all the emails that are local ("ON MY MAC") classified in folders when I hit "Reply", the new e-mail is sent from my .mac account and not the e-mail account of the currently selected message.
Also, if I'm in any local folder and I compose a new e-mail, it is composed by my .mac account.
Very annoying. In previous OS versions this worked perfectly.
I noticed that if I right-click on a local 'On My Mac' folder and do a "Get Account Info", the displayed Account is always iCloud. Could this be the reason? Is there an e-mail Account linked to a local folder? (Can't see the reason why because it's local). If this is the case how can I change the Account linked to a folder?
Any idea that could help me?
Thanks
Laurent

If you sign into your Gmail account on your PC, on your mail page click on the Settings link on the right of the page; this will take you to the Settings page where you can click on the POP and Forwarding link---on the next page you can choose to enable IMAP and/or POP forwarding and save these settings.If you don't enable these features in your account, you will not be able to use the Gmail client on your phone.Hotmail and Gmail may well be available in India, but whether they are accessible via mobile email servers is another matter.You can of course access them by using your phone's browser.As for SE's settings download service, it's no longer operational, as has been recently stated on this forum.

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Within my Mail.app, I have 2 accounts: one is a .mac account, the other a pop account.
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Hi Again,
I am hoping someone on this forum will possibly have an answer to a very confusing problem.
I can't seem to get one of my e-mail accounts to be set up 'properly' on my iPad 4. The account in question is an account from BT, which has @btinternet.com at the end of it. I have 'installed' and deleted this account more than ten times. When setting up this account (as with all other accounts that DO work properly), the only info I am 'asked' to input is my name, e-mail address and password, in the 'text entry spaces' that relate to the INCOMING mail server. When this is done I USUALLY see the word 'verifying........' Then the 'blue tick marks' confirming that the info I have entered is correct. The validity of this info is also confirmed by the fact that this account can RECEIVE the e-mails sent to it.
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My username and password are NOT incorrect. The set up process does not even ask for a username or password for 'SMTP'!
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Hello All,
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All my 'old' e-mails, were NOT found in the 'old e-mail' folder though. THEY are still in my inbox.
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