Can't delete ISP address

I dropped one ISP and went to another. I was able to delete the old account out of my preferences. But, still when I want to send a new message it appears as an account choice. This is a problem because it is the default if I don't watch mail goes out from this account. How can I get rid of this choice.
Mike Hughes

One other thing you could try:
I think that the only place that all the Mail account information is stored is in your home directory's ~/Library/Preferences/com.apple.mail.plist file. This file might conceivably be corrupted somewhow.
You could try writing down on paper all the account and setup information in your Mail Preferences (that you want to retain), quit Mail, temporarily move that plist file to your desktop, restart Mail, and you will be guided back through account setup again.
For safety, make a copy of your entire ~/Library/Mail onto your desktop, too. Select the copies of the directory and plist file now residing on your desktop, and in the Finder under File on the menubar, choose "Make Archive". Now you can delete the copies on your desktop, ensuring that they are most definitely out of the picture, because you have a backup zipfile of them.
Assuming that rebuilding your accounts from scratch was successful, and the rogue reappearing account is no more, then you could throw away the backup zip file on your desktop, too.
If anything bad happens, restore the files in the zip archive to their original source location.
(if this solves your problem, or is actually helpful towards arriving at a solution to your problem, please consider marking this reply as "helpful" or "solved," in addition to, if applicable, marking this question as "answered")

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