Mail is stuck in my old mail account

Several months ago I changed from comcast to gmail. This morning Mail some how found the old comcast information and will not use gmail. I have gone into prefs and deleted all (that I could find) references to Comcast. Still when I try to send I get a window asking for my Comcast password. Where could that old info be hideing so I can delete it? Or other ideas?
Bob

It seems that your Gmail account has decided to use the Comcast smpt outgoing mail server. Check the Preferences->account settings for your Gmail account and ensure that the outgoing server is set to the Gmail outgoing server.
You should also delete the Comcast outgoing server from the list of possibilities.
Open Mail.
From the Mail menu, choose Preferences
Click Accounts.
On the Outgoing Mail Server (SMTP) pop-up menu, choose Edit Server List.
Delete all entries for the SMTP server that is mentioned in the error, and click Done.

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