Set default "from" field in Mail per account?

Is there any way I can set the default "from" field in Mail based on the account I'm sending from?
I have two accounts defined: work and personal. Each account has 2 email addresses associated with it (as a comma-separated list in the "Email Address" field under "Account Information"). Let's call the email addresses work-A, work-B, personal-A, personal-B.
In the Composing prefs I can either select ONE default email address to send ALL mail from, or I can select to send from "Account of Last Viewed Mailbox", in which case Mail will choose a work email address if I'm in a work mailbox and a personal email address if I'm in a personal mailbox.
That second option is great, except I can't control which work email address it chooses - A or B. Changing the order of the email addresses in the Account Information->Email Address field has no effect - it consistently chooses the "wrong" one :-/
Any way I can use "Account of Last Viewed Mailbox" and still set a default mail address per account?

Since my last post, I found tried putting
Preferences->Accounts->Email address to be my edu address
would add my .edu address as one of my from choices
Next, I sent myself a mail message, with following result:
The .edu address is now rejected by the outgoing server with the message:
Cannot send message using the server
The sender address (my .edu address) was rejected by the server
I had this working at some time, but not now. Help, please.

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Is there any way to set the From field in messages. I have two email addresses:
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a .net at my ISP
I’d like the From field to be my .edu addreess. Mail sent to my .edu address is forwarded to an address of my choosing, which happens to be my .net address. I would, however, like to keep my .net relatively hidden so I can change ISPs. We did that year switching from cable to DSL.
I tried changing Mail Preferences->Accunts->Email Address
to my .edu address. That, however, did not work. My DSL provider ignored the Email Address field and inserted my .net address in the from field. (I believe this method worked when I had a cable ISP.)

Since my last post, I found tried putting
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The .edu address is now rejected by the outgoing server with the message:
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The sender address (my .edu address) was rejected by the server
I had this working at some time, but not now. Help, please.

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Is there a way to have mail use my .mac address as my preferred iCloud address? I have mail configured to set the From header based on the account I'm accessing, so my work email will come from my work account, and my personal email will come from my personal account. I'd like to keep that configuration.
Unfortunately, I use my .mac address for my personal email, and Apple keeps attaching new, unwanted email addresses to my iCloud account (.mac.com, .me.com and now .icloud.com). Mail somehow sees three addresses on my iCloud account, and defaults the From header to .me.com. For a variety of reasons, including personal preference, I don't ever want to use the .me.com or .icloud.com addresses.
Alternately, is there a way to delete the unwanted .me.com and .icloud.com addresses?
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I appreciate the reply, but it only gets me partway there. I already have that option set to 'Account of selected mailbox' so that replies to email on my work account (a non-iCloud account) come from my work email address.
My problem is my personal mail is on an iCloud account that, thanks to Apple, now has three email addresses associated with it. So when I reply to a personal email, the 'Account of selected mailbox' option frequently, but not always, chooses the wrong iCloud address for the From field.
Ideally, I'd like to be able to tell Mail that it should use my .mac address for email from my iCloud account, and my work address for mails from my work account. I'd like it to never use the .me or .icloud addresses. I don't think there's an automatic way to do that.
I'll likely end up filing a bug report with Apple.

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i read through the last few pages of this support forum and googled my topic but i havent found a suitable solution.
in Mail v 3 (3.4) there is a "From:" field in any outgoing mail. very useful for those of us with multiple non-accounts and/or .Mac aliases. i generally set a specific outgoing mail server (so that field is removed from outgoing email).
my problem is how to set a default outgoing email address so that my recipients always get from a certain (eg work) email address when i am at work. at work, anything i send, i want to show my work email without always having to manually select the "FROM" field in the outgoing email.
( aside: i had read that Mail version 3 was supposed to auto-select any reply so that the reply would come from the same email i orginally sent as. this does not work on my mac.)
This problem is exacerbated as Mail auto-rotates between my 4 email accounts/aliases (which are all listed (correctly) in the FROM field. it would be great if this list could be fixed with a default FROM address.
eg i send an email from my work email address (FROM: [email protected]) the next email i send will be rotated through my list of .mac aliases. i.e. the next email i send will not be from [email protected], but from [email protected] the next time it might move on to [email protected] or it might revert to [email protected]
any thoughts on how to fix?
i have tried deleting the home/library/preferences/com.apple.mail.plist. that is fine, but any .mac aliases (which i do use, but i dont want to be listed in the "FROM" field) are listed in the "FROM" field, and are auto-switched through my Mail again.
i looked through Rules and Automator, but no obvious help there. any thoughts?

Did you try Preferences > Accounts > Account Information and entering these other email aliases in the Email Address: field, separated by commas? That would give you a pop-down menu in the New Message window letting you choose which alias to use when sending an email.
If you go to Preferences > Composing, there should be a pop-down menu near the middle of that window labeled "Send new mail from:" which will let you choose any email address you have entered in the Account Information field mentioned above, or "Account of last viewed mailbox" as the default.
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Can you set a default "Reply-To:" on a per account basis?

I have two accounts set up in Apple Mail. One is a work account, and the other is my personal iCloud account.
For my personal emails, I would prefer to have any replies directed to an "email-for-life" address. My college alumni association has a service, which is essentially an email forwarder. The beauty of this is that I am not tied to a particular ISP such as iCloud, mobileme, .mac, etc. If I change ISPs, I only have to update the infomation on the forwarding system rather that letting all my personal contacts know that my email address has changed. For them, my permanent email address is of the form "<firstname.lastname>@<college>.alumni.edu". As such, I cannot use that address as my "From" address, as mosts ISP requirethe From address for authentication. I suppose this helps prevent spoofing.
I have seen instructions for setting a Default "Reply-To:" address in Apple Mail by setting the UserHeaders in Mail prefs via a Terminal window:
To set: Enter the following in a terminal window:
defaults write com.apple.mail UserHeaders '{"Reply-To:"="[email protected]";}'
To review settings: Enter the following in a terminal window:
defaults read com.apple.mail UserHeaders
To clear settings: Enter the following in a terminal window:
defaults delete com.apple.mail UserHeaders
My problem is that this sets the default for all email accounts in Apple Mail. I only want to do this for my personal email account. I want emails sent from my work account to reply to the work email addresss.
Is there a setting on the defaults write ... command such that I can apply the UserHeaders to only one account?
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Tim

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I recently changed from cable (optonline.net) to DSL (verizon.net), because the price went from about $50/month (cable) to $20/month (DSL).
The email address I’d like to advertise to the world is one based on a university. It’s not a real address, but a forwarding address that I can change when my real address changes.
I inserted my university email address in:
Mail->Preferences->Accounts->Account Information->Email Address
The above worked with the cable provider, but does not work with the DSL provider. Here I get the error message:
Cannot send message using the server version
The sender address was rejected by the server outgoing.yahoo.verizon.net.
Select a different outgoing mail server from the list below or click Try Later to leave the message in your Outbox until it can be delivered.
Sending from: David Kallman <email removed>
Any suggestions? I tried setting:
Reply To -> email removed
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Note: This message:
1. duplicates http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?threadID=2034538 with more details
2. replaces http://discussions.apple.com/message.jspa?messageID=9600146 by moving the same question to the Mail forum.
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