Mail sends from random accounts

I noticed that mail will send from anyone of the 7 accounts I have set up. I prefer it to only send from my me.com account. Is there a way I can configure this in preference?

Not an iCloud question at all. This question is better suited to the Mac OS X 10.7 Lion Forum.
Since you are here…
To specify a default email account in Mac OS X Mail:
Go to Mail > Preferences
Go to the Composing category.
Select the desired account under 'Send new messages from:' (under Addressing:).
Close the Preferences window.
Also, Mac OS X Mail uses the topmost account in the Accounts list as the default for outgoing messages. You can change the order of the Accounts list using drag-and-drop. The individual account's folders under Inbox, for example, are also sorted in this order.

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