In Yosemite, I can't change my incoming mail server. I have to use one for my office network, and another when outside the network. In the older OS I could easily change it (even though is would always rearrange the order of my email accounts). Now the field for the incoming mail server is grayed out and can't be changed.
Help!!
OS X Mountain Lion (10.8.3)
A further note. I tried resetting the PRAM - no change. Also logged out of iCloud in the System Preferences, restart, start mail, still no change. (Note this problem is NOT about an iCloud email address, but my business address).
Help?
And now the solution after an online chat with the great Apple support staff. In Mail Preferences, Accounts, Advanced tab, uncheck the "Automatically detect and maintain account settings" box. Save the settings when closing the preferences box. Then open preferences again and note the incoming mail server box can be changed.
...now if the software engineers can fix the annoying bug of the order of accounts being changed to "Apple Order" whenever changes are made, the Mail app will be much improved.
This helped me, Thank you !
Now I have to figure out how to change from Pop to IMAP on company account without losing my emails. This is proving challenging!
The automatic mode made me move to SSL and now I can't update the server type from Pop to IMAP! Grrr.
Thank you thank you thank you. I looked everywhere for this!
David, Many thanks for posting this solution. Do you know if it is a new e.g. Yosemite problem or older?
It's not necessarily a "problem," in that auto-configuration is an attempt to simplify confirmation (and I bet it fixes 100x more problems than it causes, but still, the problem cases will find the forums 😉 ).
That said, I believe that Mail in Yosemite changes to auto-configure when you upgrade, if previously it wasn't set to do so. Either that or some mail servers were upgraded.
Thank you David, this fixed things for me!
David,
It was very good of you to come back and post your solution. It sure helped me today.
Jerry
TThank you, thank you, thank you, David Estes! It worked for new!
In Yosemite, how do I change my incoming mail server?
