Recently Mac Mail program suddenly stopped receiving emails from the Email server. From mail account settings, the incoming mail server is grayed out. So users can’t mail mail incoming server. This problem mostly happened after OS X Yosemite upgrade. So here is the article I gonna share some solutions to fix this issue. Let’s get started.

Solution: Uncheck Automatically detect and maintain account settings

  • Navigate to Mail Preferences ->  Accounts Tab and choose your Mail account on the left side.
  • Click Advanced on the top right.
  • Uncheck the check box “Automatically detect and maintain account settings”.
  • Click Save (Get save option by clicking another mail account or closing preferences window and select save when popup box appears).
  • Restart your system.

This allows you to navigate back to Account information and the incoming mail server form is no longer be grayed out.

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