Why is mail erasing or resetting outgoing mail servers?

Yesterday morning, Mail had reset itself to have no outgoing mail servers. I manually reentered the outgoing mail server info, and Mail functioned properly until this morning. Today, Mail had reset the outgoin mail server onmy several email accounts to None--but it didn't "erase" the proper email servers' info. I've now manually changed the outgoing mail server for each of my email accounts, and Mail is functioning properly. I'd like to understand what's happenin and how to prevent the nuissance int he future. Thanks in advance for your help.

Hi Bill, I take it the Mac loses that info when logged out or restarted?
It sounds like your Main pref file is corrupted...
/Users/YourUserName/Library/Preferences/com.apple.mail.plist
Trouble is it holds almost everything, not sure if you'd like to quit Mail trash that file & setup Mail all over again, or if it'd be better to try trashing it once Mail is up & running & have it attempt to rebuild that file from what is in memory.
Do you have any backups of that file?

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