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Mail is being sent from the wrong account

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Hey guys I have 5 accounts in Thunderbird, and when I send mail from my main account, it goes into the sent folder of that account AND the sent folder of another account, one which I didn't send from and barely use. That's not the problem though, the problem is that it's actually being sent from the account which I barely use. Every time I send an email I triple-check which address it's being sent from, and it's the main one but still it gets sent from another account. Does anyone know what's going on here?

Hey guys I have 5 accounts in Thunderbird, and when I send mail from my main account, it goes into the sent folder of that account AND the sent folder of another account, one which I didn't send from and barely use. That's not the problem though, the problem is that it's actually being sent from the account which I barely use. Every time I send an email I triple-check which address it's being sent from, and it's the main one but still it gets sent from another account. Does anyone know what's going on here?

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Check Account Settings > [name of account] and see what the outgoing server setup is. Also check the Outgoing Server settings and see which is the default.

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All the accounts are sending to smtp.googlemail.com There are two entries of exactly the same outgoing server, but one of them is labelled "Default".

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Is that the one you want to be the default? You can change the default server.

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There are only two servers, and they're both exactly the same. Does it matter which is the default?

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It might, in the case of multiple gmail SMTP servers, what username and password is used is the determining factor. ie if you have an SMTP that logs in as Bigfella@gmail.com and send mail from smallguy@gmail.com using that SMTP Gmail will chae the sender information to Bigfella when they transmit it.

You need an SMTP entry for each account (that may be 5 or 55 gmail SMTP entries) and need to set each account to use the correct one.

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This seems a bit advanced for me, I reckon I'll just delete the barely used account and get it to forward all of it's mail to the main one.