"Send [email] from Selected Account..." is nearly random. Anyone else?

+I don't think its just me, but maybe it is:+
Do other people have issues with multiple email accounts
in that sending an email with this preference set, tends to be almost random?:
You can send email to a person you have emailed a hundred times, but if you don't double-check the source account - and it may go from the WRONG account. It wasn't the SELECTED account, it may not even be a
much used account (email address).
You can fire 2 emails back-to-back, to 2 different destinations, and the 2nd seems to have arbitrarily
selected another account to send from.
This is more than a little bit galling, if you intend to email certain people ONLY from a special account.
Say, for example, people who indulge in viral emails, etc.
Eventually half your contacts have half your email addresses - and now you are in spam **** again,
as soon as one of your recipients sends one of these viral emails out in a group email.

I've submit this as a problem in the "reply" to Apple.
If others are finding it a problem, I hope they do too.
Here are some scenarios that underscore it.
Having the ability to set a default FROM address in MAIL to a given destination is fairly important.
Especially when you are trusting your machine to automate the correct event.
If you have multiple email addresses, one has them for a reason.
You send from only certain ones - to certain people, for a reason:
For example, contacting a subordinate or boss at work, from your home account.
I have found the said contacted colleague will sometimes send work communication to my home account by mistake.
Instead of getting a last minute meeting notice while at work, it goes to a home account I don't pick up very often.
Or, if sent from an account one picks up on their iPhone... Now I get long messages that I would prefer not receiving on that device. Simply because the wrong SEND account was used, but not actually CHOSEN by me. (We all have those relatives, don't we?)
Once an address is "compromised" by inadvertently sending from the wrong address:
well, you accounts are free of spam only so long as your contacts are secure.
You are only as good as your least capable correspondent & spam filter.

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