Wrong from address being used when sending emails.

I have had a problem just recently on my iPhone 5S with latest iOS 7.1.1 whereby outbound emails are being sent from the wrong account.
When I start to compose the email the correct from address is shown, but then when I enter or select a recipient it sometimes changes to one of my other accounts. This causes confusion and problems when people don't recognise the email account, and potentially will reveal a private account to someone I don't want to.
The default is set correctly, it just happens occasionally after entering a recipient email address. Very odd and recent behaviour.
If I notice and change the sending account before sending the email then the next time that I send an email to that person it seems ok. But it can change again at any time.
I just tested and if I change the sending email address it will use that the next time, if I change it back it will then select a random different one following that. It is very definitely a bug. I bet you $5 if I call up Apple tech support they will tell me to reset and restore my phone, which will probably solve it for a few months before it crops up again. Have tried rebooting the phone and turning off and on and switching default accounts, no change.

Check your mail smtp server preferences in Mail Prefs > Accounts for each account. That is independent of the "account" dropdown in the message composition window. In preferences > account, make sure that the desired smtp server is selected for each of your mail accounts. Authenticated smtp servers will specify the username with the smtp server info. If any are in error, you will need to go in and edit the smtp server information from that same pulldown menu for each account in error.

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