Mail keeps on asking to use Keychain

It seems I'm not alone in this but … recently Mail started asking for permission to use Keychain each time I open it for the first time in a session. I read what seemed to be the appropriate pages in Help, and followed the instructions as best I could, but to no avail.
Anybody out there understand what's going on?

Hey thanks for all the responses. I've still got the problem and am beginning to suspect it is because I have four different accounts and 3 out of 4 have the same password. Anyway, it's apparent from reading around, that this is not an uncommon problem with Mail. Simplest solution seems to give up on Mail and use some other mail browser. I love my iMac and think OS X is, generally speaking the best system in the world BUT!! … nothing's perfect and Apple would do well to put a bit of work into upgrading Mail (and Safari, for that matter. I'll go and see what Mozilla have to offer.

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