Apple mail and email accounts do not open in Yosemite

I have recently found the problem that I open the Apple Mail app and nothing is functional. When I try to edit account settings it doesn't let me access those. I want to reinstall mail app or at least update its settings. I read in some blog that yosemite "guesses" and changes your prefered account settings so I wonder if that is the cause after I backed up my emails recently I had loads of messages asking for my passwords, which never happened in Mavericks.
Does anyone have a clue what I can do? Solve it through time machine? Would I delete the app and reinstall it?
Thank you for any help out there.

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