Mail loosing settings

g'day all,
Everytime I reboot my computer and restart mail, it looses my mail settings. I'm using the webmail patch, and it seems to work fine except for this error. All the mail is still being stored on the computer, but it always gets me to set it up in this situation. Not sure if I need to save it somehow...?
Thanks in advance,
Damok

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Quit the Mail.app first and using the Finder, go to Home > Library > Mail. Copy the Mail folder and place the copy on the Desktop for backup purposes.
Using the Finder, go to Home > Library > Preferences > com.apple.mail.plist. Move the com.apple.mail.plist file to the Desktop.
Note: Moving the com.apple.mail.plist file out of the Preferences folder will require re-entering all email account information when re-launching Mail.
The only exception to this is if you have a .Mac account and/or you created an email account as part of the computer setup assistant when first turning on the computer when new which will be re-created in Mail automatically.
Launch Mail and decline any prompt to import mailboxes. After re-entering all email account information the same as before, the Mail.app should rediscover the existing account named folders and mailbox files at Home > Library > Mail.
After confirming all mailboxes were successfully rediscovered, you can delete the copy of the Mail folder and old com.apple.mail.plist file from the Desktop.
Test if this resolves the problem.

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