I have four separate POP mail accounts under my Windows Live Mail client (WLM 2011, Build 15.4.3555.0308).  When I 'Reply' to a message, it of course is sent from the account the original message came into.  That fine.  But I am usually in the 'Quick views' pane, and when I hit "Email Message" to create a new message, the message is sent from my Default account.

This is logical, but I wonder if there is some way to force WLM to ask what account to send a new message from?  Sometimes it's after I've already sent a message that I realize that I should not have used the Default account, because replies to that message will come into the wrong Inbox, and the sender may even add my Default e-mail address to his address book.

I doubt that WLM can be hotrodded to ask what account to send from when the Quick views pane is open, but could I set up a bogus account and mark it as Default?  The mail could not be sent on the next cycle, and I would be advised that the "...mail didn't go through"?  I could then simply go to the Outbox, open the unable-to-send mail and pull-down the proper From address.

Would this work, and what would be the setup parameters for the bogus account for the least confusion?  Many thanks!