Mail Activity Window shows activity on defunct accounts

I just opened the Activity window on the Mail.app, and discovered that in addition to my existing accounts, it was trying to log into 3 defunct accounts!  They're not listed as accounts under preferences anymore (one is over 10 years old), but somehow the program is looking for them.  If I can't see them under the Accounts pref, how do I get rid of them?
Only other thought is that I do have old mail saved in Mail folders from the old accounts, for reference.
Thanks!

As far as the certificate mismatch, I have encountered this often on my support clients' Cox accounts. If you examine the certificate you get back from Cox, instead of a name like pop.west.cox.net, it will have a name like spop.west.cox.net, which is the secure side of that host. To get rid of the mismatch error, instead of turning off SSL (which will also do it, but which makes Cox's support people antsy), just change the POP host name in Apple Mail from pop... to spop... (or whatever it is the certificate says, I'm doing this from memory). It's the same host, and matching the name in the certificate makes the error go away.
As far as the header-only mail fetching, I can't help you with that, because I don't have a Cox account myself to experiment with. Sorry. But maybe see if fixing the server name match solves the problem anywayy.

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