Mail selecting incorrect SMTP server

I saw a post on this but I have a more specific problem, hopefully someone can tell me what I'm doing wrong. Here's my situation. I use my MacBook Pro at work, and I have to operate sometimes inside a firewall and sometimes out on the Internet. As a result, I have to maintain two different Account setups in Mail for the same actual email account. One setup (call it 'Mail') goes directly to the server address, uses normal SSL transport, and uses that internet SMTP server with SSL authentication. All works fine. However, when I'm inside the firewall, I have to use an SSH tunnelling setup to get to IMAP servers outside, so I use SSHAgent and tunnel my local ports to the server outside. That, also, works after much fiddling.
So I end up having two different 'accounts' in Mail - one to 'Mail' and one to 'Mail Tunnel.' At any given time, one or the other works, and the other is 'offline.' Here comes the problem.
I have specified in each of them that they have to use specific SMTP servers - the direct connection for 'Mail' and the localhost:port for 'Mail Tunnel.' The problem is that whenever I compose and send a message while inside, Mail.app always tries to send it to the 'Mail' SMTP server - the one with the direct address. Even if I'm sitting in the 'Mail Tunnel' inbox when I hit 'compose' - no joy. It always tries the 'external' mail server.
The only way I can send mail while inside is to go into preferences, go to the 'Mail' setup (not Mail Tunnel) and set it to use the localhost:port SMTP server and select 'Use Only This Server.' Then things work, until of course I leave the firewalled zone and have to go back and change preferences.
So what appears to be happening is that Mail isn't differentiating my outbound mail server based on the account I'm using. I'm wondering if that's because my 'REply-To' address and username are the same on both accounts, so somehow the SMTP server selection doesn't get done? I know there's a preference in the 'Composing' section to set where to send mail from...however, the only options there are '<my email address>@<my domain>' or 'Account of Last Viewed Mailbox.' I have it set to the latter. It doesn't say anything about what server to use, and the face that it's keying on my email address (which is the same for both accounts) leads me to believe that's what's going wrong - since the email address is the same in both cases, Mail.app doesn't think it has to select the outbound server. In other words, it's indexing on my Reply-To address, not on the 'Account profile.'
Am I crazy? Is there a way to make this work? Thanks.

And, if you select Mail's Accounts preferences in the Accounts Information tab, then select the Edit servers option from the drop down menu for Outgoing server, is each server associated only with it's respective account? And when observing the Outgoing server drop down menu does the name of the associated server change when you select each account from the sidebar?
If none of this is working still, then you may want to remove the /Home/Library/Preferences/com.apple.mail.plist file to the Desktop. Then reconfigure Mail's preferences to see if that resolves the problem. As it is I cannot replicate what you've described on my system, so it could be a corrupted preference file on yours. You can test this by creating a new user account and logging into that account. Set up new Mail configurations for the new account to see if they function as expected.

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Hi There,
At this point we are migrating our mailserver from groupwise to Exchange 2007 and at the same point we are connection the new domain in the forrest from a other school. All goes well but know there is a small issue that we have to fix. The Exchange server from the other school send's all message's for @grundel.nl to our new exchange server but there aren't users. There are two sollutions to our problem (I think) but I need to know what exchange can do for me.
1- Our mail goes to the new exchangeserver and when there is a user that the server doesn't know he forwards the mail to our Groupwise server (through SMTP). Is this possible and how can I configure it?
2- The mailserver from the other school sends the mail to Our Groupwise server direct. This is difficult because we are in one forrest and exchange see's that the grundel.nl is configured in sites and servers. Can Exchange bet configured to send mail for our domain to a SMTP server instead of our exchnage server and how can I configure that?
Sollution 1 would be the best so we gen migrate a bit easier.
Thanks,
Marcel
PS: All Exchange server's are 2007 SP2.

and if i am having "recipient not found" for some users ?
i have the same situation and mostly all mail goes normally, except for some users.
It smtp configuration for user is [email protected] but if i send mail to [email protected] (the same site, same server, but i have smart host value for this domain ) - mail deliver to user exchange mailbox locally ([email protected]) and not forwarded
to another host.
Another users goes normally. how can i resolve this problem ?
Be real
really need some help
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This question is already marked as answered so you should start a new thread including as much information as possible.
Cheers, Steve

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