Grayed out mail settings

I just changed an old pop mac.com account over to a new imap account. Now i have some items under account information grayed out. incoming mail server and user name is correct but grayed out. Also under the account name i have a button that says edit alias. Why is that there? There are no aliases only a me.com account that is older and can get mail from mac.com as well.

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