Mail, Contacts & Calendar Bug

Hi,
I think I've found a bug in the Mail, Contacts and Calendars preference panel in Mountain Lion.
I have an email account that was originally created through Mail.app. The email account has a username (e.g. [email protected]) that is different from the email address (e.g. [email protected] which is a nickname to [email protected] on the Google Apps hosted mail). This account works fine in Mail.app but when I open the Mail, Contacts and Calendars preference panel and select the account (so I can enable notes and calendar syncing) a sheet opens that says:
Mail, Contacts and Calendars can't connect to the Google account "matthew".
Enter the password for user "[email protected]".
If I enter the correct password it returns an error: "Unabled to verify account name and password".
If I quit System Preferences, go back into Mail.app and change the email address to [email protected] so that it matches the username, then go back into Mail, Contacts and Calendars it works fine.
So it seems there is a bug in the Mail, Contacts and Calendars where it is using the email address instead of the username to authenticate.
I can't remember trying to do this in Lion, so I can't say if the same bug was there or not.
Has anyone else seen this?
cheers
Matthew

Hi,
Thanks for the advice but it didn't solve the problem. There was nothing in the keychain for the nickname email [email protected] I removed the the keychain item relating to [email protected] and went back into Mail, Contacts and Calendars and it still failing there. I then went back into Mail.app and re-entered the password into the account and it saved it correctly back into the keychain and it worked to send and receive mail.
Seems like a bug to me.
cheers
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