Thanks. I'll try that and see what happens. I hadn't noticed the change 8-) Many thanks for the help and the quick response. Cheers, Brian On 11/6/05, Rob Griffiths <robg at macosxhints.com> wrote: > On Nov 6, 2005, at 12:58 AM, Brian Durant wrote: > > > Tiger. The "#€% program won't maintain a consistent default account. > > Very irritating as I use different accounts for personal stuff and > > Is that true even with "Send new mail from" in the Composing section > of Prefs set to your preferred account? I think it defaults to > "Account of last viewed Mailbox," which would explain the behavior > you're seeing. > > This was only added in Tiger, I believe; before that, you were sorta > stuck with the revolving From account... > > -rob._______________________________________________ > X-Newbies mailing list > X-Newbies at listserver.themacintoshguy.com > http://listserver.themacintoshguy.com/mailman/listinfo/x-newbies > > Listmom is trying to clean out his closets! Vintage Mac and random stuff: > http://search.ebay.com/_W0QQsassZmacguy1984 >