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I recently upgraded from Lion to Mountain Lion, and am having some trouble with Mail.
I have five email accounts: Comcast, two Gmail-based and two on an independent company's servers (Pair Networks).
When I'm in one of my inboxes and send a new email, the sending account is set correctly to that of the selected account. Likewise, if I respond to an email the sending account is set correctly.
BUT - if I am anywhere else and send a new email - unified inbox, local folder of filed mail, etc. - the sending account appears as a sixth option that doesn't exist in my settings anywhere. The dropdown to select a sender account now shows six options instead of the usual five, and this is the last one, and is selected.
The email address for that account happens to be the same as one of my accounts, but the name shown is strange.
The original account reads like:
Firstname Lastname <[email protected]>
This weird sixth account reads like:
"Firstname Lastname (s)" <[email protected]>
- adding quotes around the name and a parentheses s at the end of the name.
The original account is not the first in the list, nor the last. It is second. The first is a Gmail account - not sure if that is relevant.
iCloud is not enabled for Mail - all my devices do their own connecting to mail.
Soooo.....hmmm. What do folks think? Is there somewhere I should be able to set an overall default account, when a sending account can't be determined based on the selected folder?

"Account of selected mailbox"
The bogus account doesn't appear in the list. The original (Firstname Lastname <[email protected]>) does appear, as the second option in the dropdown list.

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