Mail account won't stay deleted, keeps reappearing.

Hello ... An apple mail account won't delete.  It keeps reappearing when I restart mail.  I've gone into system preferences, mail preferences, unchecked 'enable this account', unchecked 'include when checking', etc.  I can delete it, create my new mail account and things are good until I exit out of Mail, then when I reopen, the old account reappears and the new one is gone.  They are POPs.  Thanks.

Just in case anyone has this same problem, none of the above worked except for going into library/mail/maildata/accounts.plist file and removing any reference to the mailbox that won't delete.  I removed any inferences, saved the file and it works perfectly now.

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