Old pop email account resurfaced in mail

Hi guys.
I am hoping someone will know the answer to this as it is driving me mad!
My old pop email account I used to have I deleted as the account closed. However for some reason now that I am using Mavericks is still there despite me deleting it!
I keep deleting it and for some reason it keeps reappearing in the list of accounts!
I do have a macbook and I deleted that old pop email account from there as well. But it still appears!
Any ideas on how to sort this out once and for all?
Cheers

Hi Chama9876,
Welcome to the Support Communities!
The article below may be able to help you with this.
Mail (Mavericks): Remove mail accounts
http://support.apple.com/kb/PH14944
Removing a mail account removes the account information from Mail and deletes the account’s mailboxes and messages that are saved on your Mac.
Warning: Deleting a POP account permanently deletes its mailboxes and messages from your Mac and cannot be undone. If you back up files using Time Machine, you can use it to recover previous versions of mailboxes.
Restore mailboxes and their content
Choose Mail > Preferences, then click Accounts.
Select an account, then click Remove (-).
Removing an Exchange or IMAP account doesn’t permanently delete the account’s mailboxes and messages because they’re stored on the mail server. To retrieve the account’s mailboxes and messages from the server, add the account again in Mail.
After you remove the mail account, if you close the Accounts window, you should be prompted to Save the changes. Then quit the Mail app and restart the computer.
Cheers,
- Judy

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