Multiple mail accounts and contacts

I have multiple mail accounts and too often it happens that I find out that I did not use the correct mail account for the person I mailed to. Wouldn't it be nice to indicate for each contact which mail account shall be used to mail to? Almost always this is contact related, isn't it? And of course this would have the required effect in OS X and in iOs.

In Mail app you can set which email account will be default to start new message (Mail->Preferences->Composing tab->Send new message from) OR if somebody sent you an email, if you will replay to it, then your email will be sent from the same email account on which you received email.

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