Setting default send account

How do I change the default sending account? With several email accounts to keep track of and only a few that send mail (outbound) I would like to make my MobileMe account the default for sending messages. How do I change the default, which happens to be one that does not "send" messages (no outbound access). I sometime forget to change the account when sending and the message sits in the Out box.

Settings -> Mail, Contacts, Calendars
Select your account.
Then
SMTP -> Primary Server
at least that is how it is for standard imaps!
The actual setting of the default mail account to be used is at:
Settings -> Mail, Contacts, Calendar -> Scroll to the bottom youll find Default Account there (messages sent outside of the mail program)

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Spinland,
Try this and see if it helps you....
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http:/https://discussions.apple.com/message/18677085#18677085

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I'm running OSX 10.6 and Mail 4.6.
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I have three IMAP accounts set up in Mail and when I want to send an outgoing email can easily use the drop down to pick which account is used. The issue is I'd like to specify which of the three is used by default. I've searched on how to do this and the supposed answers are not working for me.
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Spinland,
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http:/https://discussions.apple.com/message/18677085#18677085

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For replying, it will default to the account that received the email. For new emails, go to Options>Advanced Options>Default Services, and set the default "Messaging (CMIME) to the email you prefer over here and save.
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Hi DavBMan, thanks for your reply. Yes I do know about seeing the 'from' address and manually changing it. Even when I do that, even though the phone shows the correct from address (even shows in the correct sent mailbox on the iphone), the recipient still sees another (my personal) 'from' address no matter what.
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I cannot get over it ... how can a company that designs such wonderful hardware write such poor software? Apple should really feel ashamed. Anyone Windows-bashing should realise that computing is about more than just fancy screen backgrounds. I am so sick of this.
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When you access multiple mail accounts from your iPhone (iOS 8.2 12D508) you need to specify a default mail account. This is (or at least used to be in working implementations of this feature in previous iOS versions) the mail account that mails will be sent from unless the user selects another account.
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==> This is when the sender mail account reverts to the last e-mail account that a mail was sent from (in our case the non-default account).
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I can't see anything genuine about it!
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