Click the Mail menu and select 'Preferences'.

The process for doing so is outlined in the video screencast and step-by-step instructions provided below. I would appreciate if you all cold do the same.Apple Mail can be configured for use with departmental e-mail accounts using the IMAP protocol. The corporate thugs seem to forget that or never gave a damn in the first place. Perhaps reinstalling the entire Operating System will do the trick TImmy Boy? User’s time matter too. I’ve turned off the iCloud account and this does not work either. He has probably determined that 3.7% less phone calls occur when users have less choices and that means another vacation in the Bahamas with noting that it means 8 hours of user BS to solve additional problems that some code decision has created. plist file somewhere that users can no longer access because Tim Cook has lost the plot that Steve Jobs spent 20 years Creating and the solution is bundled somewhere that’s also a myster to Phone Techs. There is no existing account! I am re-adding it, but clearly it’s retained in a. The email account in question is my primary business email account which inexplicably failed after changing my iCloud password. This compromises security so I put it back to it’s original state.

An Old Schol Method involves modifying the V2 –> MailData –> ist file using BBEdit. When the account is added, it loads the emails in a flash and then snaps to inactive again. THis is the first which recognizes that other acocunts are being affected by the iCloud chokehold as well. The advice online presumed the iCloud email is the issue. Only a single SMTP account is allowed to be saved,” remains an unsolvable problem for hours now. I have 9 email accounts and I’ve deleted the corresponding Keychain files of the account which will not return to active to no avail, therefore the retention of the account information, that cannot be added because, “A SMTP account already exists.

Safari Bookmarks changes, Desktop and Documents if you are silly enough to leave that checked etc. I’m having the exact same issue as Chris Reilley and yes it’s really frustrating and virtually every problem, which are many with Mac OS Catalina and Mojave, stem from iCloud which preserves information in cryptic, inaccessible files, including iCloud Drive, that is slowly taking control over user decisions.

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