Changing mail server on Nokia N8

I was connected to my university email (outlook) on my Nokia N8 and it has been working perfectly for the past 6 months, but now my uni updated and completely redid the email system and the server has changed.. but i can't seem to change it on my phone! when i go to mail - settings i can see the field for the server (which has the old name) but i can't open it to edit the name of the server! if i click on the username or password field they open right away to be edited...
does anyone know how to change the server?
Thank you

This might be a rather 'low-tech' approach but.. have you considered just removing the mailbox and setting it up again?
If anything, if it doesn't pick up the settings automatically you should be able to define them during setup.
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This may be a more broad networking-type issue, but I thought I'd post here as it's mail in which I am affected.
When I am on the road, I have an IP address in my "mail server" settings (IMAP). However, when I am inside the office network, this IP fails and I need to manually change it to the internal IP address.
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