I'm a Mac newbie using Apple Mail version 8.2 on Yosemite 10.10.3: I have 5 mail accounts and have noticed that mails sent from any account often get mixed up with sent mails from the same or different accounts. It is a complete mess, e.g. a sent mail can be appended to another sent mail's header from a different account, or, a sent mail can appear in the midst of a group of mails sent to an entirely different address. I have searched but not found anyone else who is reporting the same problem. Please help?
Apple Mail mixes up sent messages with other sent messages within and across different accounts
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Under Accounts in Preferences, there's a field there called "Email Address:". You can put a comma-separated list of addresses in there, like this:
Now your "Compose" window will have a "From" popup menu that lets you choose your sending address:
AFAIK, this works for pretty much any mail account type, as long as your mail provider allows you to muck around with the From: header.
Have you tried selecting the folder in the folder list and then using the menu entry "Use This Mailbox For -> Sent" in the Mailbox menu?
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That should do exactly what you want.
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Best Answer
Open your Mail app preferences. Make sure you are using following setting.
This way your Sent email is always going to be from the currently selected email account.
Open one of the Sent mail folders. In there add the "From" to double check.