How do I designate a default address in Mail?

[J Cabaniss]

In have Mac.com and RoadRunner. I use several different addresses (RoadRunner allows five). Entourage lets me designate one of the addresses as the default address. In other words, when I create an e-mail, the electronic address I selected as the default address was automatically used by Entourage, even if the address was on another server that I was using.

Is there any way to do this with Mail? There are some e-mails on which I don't want to use the Mac.com address, primarily fear of my Mac.com getting on the spam lists. Sometimes I forget to select my desired address in Mail and it seems to only default to the Mac.com address.

Any way to change the default?

Joe

[edX]

system prefs/internet/email

enter info for your preferred default here

[J Cabaniss]

Originally posted by Ed Spruiell
system prefs/internet/email

enter info for your preferred default here

Ed,

Thanks; I tried it, but that doesn't do it. Any other things I might try?

Joe

[gumse]

Drag the accounts in the account list in the Mail prefs pane so that the one you want to be default comes first.

[J Cabaniss]

Originally posted by gumse
Drag the accounts in the account list in the Mail prefs pane so that the one you want to be default comes first.

gumse,

No, that's not the problem. I'm the sole account in the accounts list, but I have five e-mail address (one is a mac.com address and the other addresses are RoadRunner addresses.

Joe

[twister]

It'd be nice to have a default but mine just composes to which ever email box i have selected last. So from time to time i use my persinal account for work stuff. Oops. Gotta keep an eye on that.

Also you know what bugs me? Is whenever i select some text and then hit replay that is the only text that shows up in the new message. I want the whole message, not just the selected text. Geez. I did check the correct preferance but that didn't help any. It just doesn't listen to me.

And a feature i'd like (besides labels) would be to have an up/down arrow in the messages. I often click on a message only to have the one above or below it open. If i had arrows i could basically scroll up or down though my messages without having to close and re-open message windows.

Twister

[J Cabaniss]

Originally posted by twister
It'd be nice to have a default but mine just composes to which ever email box i have selected last. So from time to time i use my persinal account for work stuff. Oops. Gotta keep an eye on that.

Twister,

I tried and tried to accomplish it, but I concluded the same as you, it ain't possible.

Joe

[twister]

You know. I just put an email address in the System Prefs:Internet setting area and i think it may have worked. I'll know in a few days after testing.

Twister