{"id":2398,"date":"2015-02-06T17:07:39","date_gmt":"2015-02-06T17:07:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.swarthmore.edu\/its\/?p=2398"},"modified":"2015-02-06T17:07:39","modified_gmt":"2015-02-06T17:07:39","slug":"tip-disable-automatic-detection-and-maintenance-of-account-settings-in-yosemite-mail","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.swarthmore.edu\/its\/2015\/02\/06\/tip-disable-automatic-detection-and-maintenance-of-account-settings-in-yosemite-mail\/","title":{"rendered":"Tip:  Disable Automatic Detection and Maintenance of Account Settings in Yosemite Mail"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>There is a problematic setting included in the latest version of the Mail application that comes bundled with OS X 10.10 Yosemite. If you use Apple\u2019s Mail client to check your Swarthmore email, you will need to turn this setting off.<\/p>\n<p>The Mail application will now attempt to automatically change your email settings without warning, even when your email is working correctly. The automatic changes won\u2019t necessarily be correct for your email account, and have caused issues with Swarthmore\u2019s email settings.<\/p>\n<p>To stop this automatic configuration from occurring, make the following adjustments:<\/p>\n<p>1. In the Mail Application, pull down the <strong>Mail<\/strong> menu to <strong>Preferences<\/strong>.<br \/>\n2. Under the <strong>Accounts<\/strong> tab, select your Swarthmore account.<br \/>\n3. Pull down menu next to <strong>Outgoing Mail Server (SMTP)<\/strong> and choose &#8220;<strong>Edit SMTP Server List<\/strong>&#8220;.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.swarthmore.edu\/its-new\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/edit.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-2399\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.swarthmore.edu\/its-new\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/edit-291x300.jpg\" alt=\"Edit SMTP Server List\" width=\"291\" height=\"300\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>4. Select the Swarthmore server and then choose the <strong>Advanced<\/strong> tab.<br \/>\n5. Un-check the box that says &#8220;<strong>Automatically detect and maintain account settings<\/strong>&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.swarthmore.edu\/its-new\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/SMTP.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-2400\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.swarthmore.edu\/its-new\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/SMTP-300x280.jpg\" alt=\"SMTP Advanced Settings\" width=\"300\" height=\"280\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.swarthmore.edu\/its\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/SMTP-300x280.jpg 300w, https:\/\/blogs.swarthmore.edu\/its\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/SMTP-64x60.jpg 64w, https:\/\/blogs.swarthmore.edu\/its\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/SMTP.jpg 470w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>6. Click Ok.<br \/>\n7. Back at the Accounts window, choose the <strong>Advanced<\/strong> tab.<br \/>\n8. Un-check the first box that says &#8220;<strong>Automatically detect and maintain account settings<\/strong>&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.swarthmore.edu\/its-new\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/IMAP.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-2401\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.swarthmore.edu\/its-new\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/IMAP-291x300.jpg\" alt=\"IMAP Advanced Settings\" width=\"291\" height=\"300\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>You may need to change this setting for your non-Swarthmore email accounts as well.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There is a problematic setting included in the latest version of the Mail application that comes bundled with OS X 10.10 Yosemite. If you use Apple\u2019s Mail client to check your Swarthmore email, you will need to turn this setting off. The Mail application will now attempt to automatically change your email settings without warning, even when your email is working correctly. The automatic changes won\u2019t necessarily be correct for your email account, and have caused issues with Swarthmore\u2019s email settings. To stop this automatic configuration from occurring, make the following adjustments: 1. In the Mail Application, pull down the &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.swarthmore.edu\/its\/2015\/02\/06\/tip-disable-automatic-detection-and-maintenance-of-account-settings-in-yosemite-mail\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Tip:  Disable Automatic Detection and Maintenance of Account Settings in Yosemite Mail<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":52,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[112,113,97,114,12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2398","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-email","category-facultystaff","category-software","category-students","category-tips","has-post-thumbnail","fallback-thumbnail"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/ph2nPL-CG","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.swarthmore.edu\/its\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2398","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.swarthmore.edu\/its\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.swarthmore.edu\/its\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.swarthmore.edu\/its\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/52"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.swarthmore.edu\/its\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2398"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.swarthmore.edu\/its\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2398\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2405,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.swarthmore.edu\/its\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2398\/revisions\/2405"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.swarthmore.edu\/its\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2398"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.swarthmore.edu\/its\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2398"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.swarthmore.edu\/its\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2398"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}