SMTP servers keep disappearing

The outgoing mail servers keep disappearing intermittently from my me.com accounts and exchange account in mail account preferences.
So mail cannot be sent.
And sometimes when the servers do not disappear, the password disappears and mail can't be sent then either.
This has just started when I switched to Mountain Lion.

I have similar problems with preferences and rules etc. disappearing after each restart of mail. It does not even require a computer restart to reproduce. I found the problem to be located with icloud info and the sync process. If i uncheck docs and data the problem goes away and all is  well.
Apple is working with me on a fix for the problem but at least this is a temporary work around.
thanks
Jimsmac

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