Setting Composition Rule In Mail

THE SET-UP
I've got mail configured to send and receive from a gmail account and my school-issued student account with the outrageously long extension @student.schoolname.edu. I use my school account strictly for communicating with other students and faculty. Everything else goes through gmail. The extensions for faculty are simply @schoolname.edu
THE PROBLEM
Seeing as how my composing rules are currently set to default new messages as being sent from my gmail account, and seeing as how I'm too spacy to double check stuff and switch my address in the message window before I send, I realized I just sent a whole bunch of emails to school people from my gmail. This is certainly not a tragedy, it's just kind of annoying and unprofessional-looking in my opinion.
HERE'S THE QUESTION
When I'm composing message, is there a way to program Mail or set a rule so that when I enter "schoolname.edu" in the TO: line, the message will default to my school account?
For example, if I open a new message window and type "[email protected]" or "[email protected]," I'd like for the sending address to change to my school address rather than my gmail.
I've clicked around in the menus and haven't seen anything incredibly obvious to this effect, so I'm hoping somebody out there can help. If you can't, I guess I'll just have to learn to double check things.

no, there is now way to do that in mail.

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http://support.apple.com/kb/PH11760
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