Messages from address is incorrect

Question

I'm using Messages, Mac OSx 10.8.2.
Love Messages, but I think I found a bug.  When I type in the recipient's name in the "To" box, the from address at the bottom is incorrect.  And I can't figure out how to fix it.
Here's some repo steps:
1. set up multiple accounts for yourself - one for GMail Jabber, one for Google Talk, and one for iCloud.
2. Start Messages
3. Compose a new message, and type a recipient's name.
4. Observe in the message box at the bottom (where you type your messages), it says something like "Jabber (from [email protected])".
5. The from address (in this case [email protected]), is incorrect and cannot be changed.
But, if you open the buddies list, and double click on your buddy, the from address is correct.
Does anybody else see the same problem and have a workaround?
Thanks in advance.
Cheers.

Answer 1

HI,
I have 10 additional Account in addition to the iMessages  one but including the Bonjour one.
Generally speaking I use the Buddy lists themselves to chat AIM or Jabber chats.
If you have one Google Mail Account and have enabled "Talk" at your Google setting then you only need to set up "GoogleTalk" in Messages.
If you do go through the Process again and list it as a Jabber account you will need to manually change the server name in the Account's > Server Settings tab.
When typing in the "To" spot it will show you the Real Names of those in the Contacts List.
If you only list a Screen Name or ID  in and Address Card those will be displayed as well.
If, having created the New Message item at least in the list in the left, you use the Blue + icon you can acces the Buddies list.
This is a Combined List and is very difficult to tell which Buddy list they are from as they show Real Names.
Anyway I have several Account so I can "Call Myself"
Once I have my name in the "To" spot I can use it as a drop down
In this pic I am calling from  my [email protected] account to my well known ralphjohnsr AIM name.
As you can see I can change the "From"  this way.
Basically the interface can be made to work.
A partial Name reveals non Address Card Names and ID as well
Although at this point some are labelled as GoogleTalk and are not as you can see by the server names.
(I also think that there is one labelled as yahoo and it is not as there is not @ Suffix part.)
However if I chose one of them it displays the correct "Jabber" and ID in the Text field in grey text as the "From"
Summary.
The "To " spot is also where you choose the "From" options.
The Interface can be messy but can be made to work.
9:08 PM      Monday; February 11, 2013
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