Mail wants to use the "login" keychain

I have recently upgraded my macbook pro to the next gen mac book pro. When starting up my new computer i tranfered all of the info from my old mac to my new mac via the welcome screen that appears when starting up a new mac for the first time. After this, a problem is occuring in mail. Everytime I open mail after i restart my computer, a window appears and asks the question 'Mail wants to us the "pattygeorge" keychain". I cannot stop this no mater what i try. What I found is that the new computer has shortname that differs from my old computer shortname i.e. patgeorge (new) vs. pattygeorge(old). Please help me remedy this

Strgzr wrote:
Mark I too am getting request each time I restart iMac that "Mail wants to access keychain". I don't know what you mean from this pic which thing to move to where? Please explain:(I blocked out pers.info in pic)
I didn't make a specific suggestion to the previous poster, and I don't have a specific suggestion for you.
Mail will want access to some keychain if you told it to save passwords; that's where it saves them. The keychain named "login" (the top one at the left of your picture) is usually unlocked when you log in. If your mail password is stored in a keychain not currently unlocked, the system will ask if it is OK for Mail to access that keychain.
You have five keychains. Three (login, System, and System Roots) are standard. I can guess that the Symantec keychain is used by some Symantec software you have installed. I have no idea what the one that starts "Priva" and ends "tedDatak" is.
The message you get should indicate the name of the keychain that Mail is trying to access. (In the original question, 'Mail wants to us the "pattygeorge" keychain", "pattygeorge" was the keychain name.) If you want to have the mail passwords available to Mail without prompting, you can move their entries from a locked keychain to one that is already unlocked when Mail wants to access them.
The mail passwords should be of type "Internet password" and should have names corresponding to the names of your mail servers. For example, imap.gmail.com and smtp.gmail.com for Gmail reading and sending respectively.

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When I launch the Safari application, I get a dialogue box with a message indicating the following:
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Please enter the keychain password.
Password:
Cancel -- OK
When I get this dialogue box, I enter the login keychain password in the Password text box, and I click the OK button. Then, Safari proceeds as normal. This is extremely annoying, because it happens almost every time that I launch Safari.
This only started to happen after I upgraded on Monday to Mac OS X Leopard version 10.5. During the Leopard upgrade, I had problems with the keychain passwords, and so I then upgraded again with the new "Login and Keychain Update 1.0". But, the problems with Safari forgetting the login keychain password continue.
The strange thing is that there is NO option in the dialogue box to indicate that Safari should REMEMBER the password. The option does NOT exist, so I can NOT click the Remember box.
I also went into the Keychain Access utility and double-checked and confirmed that my First Aid preferences were properly CHECKED for "Synchronize login keychain password with account" and also "Keep login keychain unlocked". Both of these preferences options are checked. So, I can't understand why Safari cannot remember the login keychain password?
I have this exact same problem with the Mail application, as well.
And, it looks like many many people are having the same problem -- See the following link to related discussions:
http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?messageID=5679135&#5679135
Can anyone please help? -- When is Apple going to release a fix for this problem? -- Has anyone received any kind of acknowledgement from Apple that they are aware of this problem and that they intend to fix it?
Please help !!!

I had the same experience and found a solution.
After the upgrade, I had a login keychain (the default) and my original username keychain. Both are in the chain of keychains, but since it has a choice, Mail keeps asking you to confirm.
I moved all the entries out of username into login, deleted username, and all is well.
Note that Keychain asks for your password on EACH ITEM that it moves, which can be tedious. So I changed the keychain password to a single character, just for the duration, then changed it back to something secure.
If, on the other hand, you don't have two keychains, then I can offer no suggestion.

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Back up all data.
Launch the Keychain Access application in any of the following ways:
☞ Enter the first few letters of its name into a Spotlight search. Select it in the results (it should be at the top.)
☞ In the Finder, select Go ▹ Utilities from the menu bar, or press the key combination shift-command-U. The application is in the folder that opens.
☞ Open LaunchPad. Click Utilities, then Keychain Access in the icon grid.
Select the login keychain from the list on the left side of the Keychain Access window. If your default keychain has a different name, select that.
If the lock icon in the top left corner of the window shows that the keychain is locked, click to unlock it. You'll be prompted for the keychain password, which is the same as your login password, unless you've changed it.
Right-click or control-click the login entry in the list. From the menu that pops up, select Change Settings for Keychain "login". In the sheet that opens, uncheck both boxes, if not already unchecked.
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This is what I did and it seems to have worked so far. While that little annoying box is up you need to open the Keychain access by:
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I hope this helps you! Sorry if it's long, I was trying to be as detailed as possible to make it easier. Let me know how it goes.

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and if the Mac is asleep and I wake it and the requester is up entering the password will cause the Mac to go in to a state where only a hard reset will get you out of it...
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I was suffering with this same problem, I followed these steps and everything returned to normality:
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2.- Opened Disk Aid and run Fix Persmissions just in case there was left some wrong file permissions during the upgrade.
3.- Went back to the Key Chain App and Locked and Unlocked the Keychain using the Lock in the top left corner of the app. When asked for my password I simply typed my User password.
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