Mail repeatedly asks me to enter password

Every time my sysem checks for new mail it asks me to enter the password. As far as I can tell all the information is correct in account setup. This is very tiresome. what's the fix??

Until recently (last couple of weeks), everything wasworking fine on my MacBook Pro (2.66 GHz Intel Core i7). I’m running OS X Lion10.7.1. Now, Mail intermittently (though annoyingly frequently) throws up thefollowing dialogue box:
Enter password for account “Yahoo!”
The Yahoo! POP server “plus.pop.mail.yahoo.com” rejected thepassword for user “account name”
Enter your password again or cancel.
Remember this password in my keychain.
Completing the information requested and checking the boxfor the password to be remembered isn’t solving the issue.
I’ve reviewed my Keychain and Mail settings and all appearsto be fine. I’m a Comcast customer. I’ve reviewed postings and suggestedremedies, but haven’t gone as far as deleting the offending Yahoo! account andsetting it up again (I’m scared of losing emails, don’t quite understand theexport function to archive emails, and don’t get what setting it up again woulddo anyway). Has anyone found a solution to this issue? Or should I do theexport, delete the account in Mail, and set it up again?
Please help! Thanks.

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