Mail is sending email from wrong account.

Every time I send or reply to an email it sends from my wifes account. If people reply to it, it goes back to her account. when I compose a new email I use the drop down menu that says from: *******@me.com, I make sure its from my account and I send it. When it gets to the person its says its from my wife. I have look in the preferences and it is using selected account to send from. I have tried to force it to only send from my account but it always sends from my wifes account. Any Ideas?

bgasso wrote:
Where is the "Reply to" in Mail preferences?
Not in Preferences. That usually works for a message-by-message basis.
With a message composition window open in Apple Mail make the following menu selection:
View > Reply-To Address Field.
If it's blank, fine.
It is possible to make it permanent via Terminal, someone would have had to do it at some stage; just wanted to ensure it was not fixed.
Do check the SMTP servers set for each account.

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