Mail Preferences not remembered...

My mail preferences are not being remembered when mail is reopened, even the email default to send from is not remembered, all folders with in Mail when opened are collapsed & no signatures are in place.
Brand new iMac, mail was imported from Macbook Pro with no issues 2 weeks ago. Mail was freezing on start up so I followed a thread on here:
Library/containers/com.apple.mail & delete the named folder, which did resolve the freezing on start up, now no preferences are remembered by mail.
Any help would be fantastic...
Thanks in advance
Toby

Is there any chance anyone can help, this issue is becoming rather annoying especially as this iMac is less than a month old!
Thanks in advance!
Toby

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