Have to type password every time I use Mail

Last week I had to trash my keychains/passwords on the recommendation of Skype help. It solved my problem with Skype but now I get asked for a password every time I launch Mail.
I've tried Mail help and got the following advice:
"To change the keychain lock settings:
Open Keychain Access, located in Applications/Utilities (or click the link provided on this page).
Select your login keychain, choose Edit > "Change Settings for Keychain 'login'."
To reduce the number of requests for your keychain password, deselect the option for the number of minutes of inactivity before the keychain is locked, or increase the number of minutes. You can also deselect "Lock when sleeping" option."
I have three keychains, one called X509 Anchors and two called System. For all of them, Change Settings, etc is greyed out on the Edit menu.
I already posted this problem in the Mail forum and was advised to head over here.

hah funny
in retrospect, I guess I did guess wrong.
I don't know enough about how key chain works, so I can't really help much there.
The only thing that comes to mind would be to trash your mail prefs, re-enter your account info, and see what happens.
Also, this is something I haven't tried so don't know if it would even work.. and that would be to un-Enable your e-mail account in mail(Mail>Prefs>Advanced), and create a new account with the same info, and see what happens.

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