Terraplaneblues, you are sort of on the right track. This is what i do now but what i want is to be able to have the account selected automaticly when i add an address from my address book instead of having to do it manually. I only ever send an email to one person at a time i do not send bulk emails to multiple recipients. so it is not as if i have more than one address in the send line at any one time.

now i am getting confused

, hope i have made it clear what i mean.

Thanks Allen