Mail password required every time

After every computer restart or program restart i am prompted for my ISP password.
I have checked the "save password to keychain" box every time I log in. It does not save it.
I have also re-entered the password directly into the Mail Preferences setup box only to see it blank the nextime I open it. Ver 10.4.6 always showed an invisible password ie a row of black dots in this box. Ver 10.4.7 is always blank.
I am fed up playing doorman at the Mails gate.
r.
imac Mac OS X (10.4.7)

The Mac OS X 10.4.7 Update changed the Mail version to 2.1. As a result, the keychain items used by Mail need to be updated in order for the new version of Mail to be granted access to them. The first time you launched Mail 2.1, it should have asked you whether you wanted to update your keychain. If you didn't do that for some reason, then Mail won't be able to access those items in the keychain now.
You can try to fix the problem in Keychain Access using the Access Control pane for each item, or just delete those items so that Mail creates them again.

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