Add account in Apple Mail greyed out

After migration to Yosemite I imported added my accounts and imported my mailboxes in Apple Mail. This seemed to work fine.
Now I want to add another mail account in Apple Mail (preferences -> accounts) and I cannot click the + (plus) as it is greyed out.
I then added the account through system settings and it appeared in Mail.
After a while (about an hour of inactivity) this account disappears from both Mail and system preferences.
Does anyone know how to fix this?

Found this and trying it myself . . . https://discussions.apple.com/message/23992956#23992956. Sounds plausible but it is a work around. Apple should look into it . . .

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