Mail in Snow leopard asking for password

Having bought the new i-mac and receiving snow leopard,mail is constantly asking for already saved passwords.
Is there a quick fix to this problem?
Cheers.

Okay. In that case do the following:
Disable automatic mail checking preference in your Mail application. Log into your mail provider's webmail interface. Change your password to something else. Log out. Give it about 15-20 mins then check your mail via mail app. You will get error, so now put in the new password and check the box to remember in keychain. After a while check mail again and see if the problem goes away. If you like, you can then change back to your original password following the same procedure.

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okay well they got me to take out some .plist files to see if that would help it didn't. I'm not sure what ones that they deleted for my self maybe someone here would be abel to tell you what ones to take out but didn't work the one that came close to working was this going into keychain and deleting the account(s) then reading them again.
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