Keychain keeps asking for password

A few days ago I had a keychain failure and since then Mail and the system periodically ask me to enter the keychain password. I'd like to stop this behavior and let all installed apps use keychain while I'm logged in.
Where do I find the setting?

Pull out the preference file; com.apple.keychainaccess.plist You can find it here: Users>Library>Preferences
I'd recommend repairing permissions, (not that it has a direct connection to this issue...just a good thing to do when having problems) then, before launching Mail, or anything else, drag that file to the desktop, and then launch Mail, and see if the problem goes away.

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Open Keychain Access, then locate and delete the mail account password item.
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http://support.apple.com/kb/PH14935
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