Asked for a password to access Mail

I get this message: The POP server “POP3.xxxxx.co.uk” rejected the password for user “yyyyy” and whatever I enter I then get asked for Keychain password. I don't know the Keychain password.

When you open Keychain Access, click on login then on passwords. You will see all of your login passwords on the right. You should have a maximum of 2 entries per email account. One should say SMTP (if you have outgoing authentication enabled) and one should say either POP or IMAP. If there are 2 items in the list for any of these, delete them.

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