Old deleted mail account sometimes syncs

I had an old mail account, that has been deleted for a long time, that the mail program every once in a while tries to sync...any ideas on how to have mail fully delete it?

Hi again,
I've never seen this happen before, but it sounds like it might have something to do with corrupted preferences. How often does this phantom account try to sync? If it's fairly frequent, then you might try quitting Mail and temporarily moving ~/Library/Preferences/com.apple.Mail.plist to your Desktop, and restart Mail to test. Before you do this however, make a backup of your ~/Library/Mail/ folder just in case.
You'll be prompted for account details, so just go through it as per normal and wait for the phantom account to sync. Once you're done testing, quit Mail and replace the original .plist file.
At the same time, look in Keychain Access (/Applications/Utilities/) to see if there is an entry associated with this phantom account. If so, try removing it as well. For this purpose, the search field in the toolbar is helpful.
I'll keep looking around. Post back if I find anything.
Yang

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