Mail internet accounts getting shared across users in Yosemite

I recently upgraded my Macbook Pro retina to Yosemite 10.10.1. I have two users created on the macbook, 1. for myself as administrator and 2. for my wife.
The problem that I am facing is that the internet accounts that I added in settings to configure the Mail app are now being seen in my wife's login. All the accounts that I added in my login now have full access/permissions in both our logins. I removed all the accounts and added them back one by one, it gives the same result.
I am not sure if the problem started with the recent upgrade. But pre-Yosemite, both of us had internet accounts added separately in our individual logins and had permissions only for our own individual accounts. Anyone else seen this?

Same problem here - this is really annoying since you cannot delete a previously added mail account anymore without resetting the complete mail app.

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I've just tried this and it didn't work, However the default setting for this scenario is usualy that I've got it wrong.... So.
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