Apple Mail changes settings after connecting to a GoDaddy server.

Question

I have set up an account in Apple Mail to connect with an email account on a GoDaddy dedicated server. When I set up the account as an IMAP account everything works perfectly for the first connection to the server.
Immediately after the first connection to the server, I can no longer connect to the server via that Apple Mail account. Furthermore the settings in the account have changed. The incoming port is now 143 instead of 993 and the authentication is MD% instead of password.
GoDaddy insists this is a problem with Apple Mail, though I don't have this problem with any of the other email accounts I have set up in Apple Mail that connect with other servers.
My suspicion is that there is something about the way GoDaddy's server is handling SSL that causes Apple Mail to think that SSL is not working and reset the incoming port to 143, which is what it should be if SSL were not being used.
Note, that the only way I can connect with the GoDaddy server is to delete the account and create a new one with the correct settings. Changing the settings in the altered account does not work.
Thanks,

Answer 1

Try going to Mail/Preferences/Accounts/Advanced and deselecting Automatically detect and maintain account settings. You will need to do this for each account.