Using Mail I am unable to separate 2 accounts

I use Mail and have 2 different gmail accts. that worked fine until recently everything I sent was going out in my wife's acct. I checked before I sent and it said it was using my act. but went out under her name. I have deleted both and reinstalled 3 times but when I set up the outgoing server it will not allow me to separate the 2 accounts. It always defaults now to hers. I run diagnostics and it looks OK. I am unable to use the outgoing server smtp.gmail.com and differentiate the two accounts. I use password protection and when I set up the 2nd acct. it stays as the default for both??

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