Passwords in mail

After installing LION, Mail doesn´t seem to save mailpasswords for mail accounts. After a couple of minutes I have to give mail all passwords again and again.
Does anybody have a solution?
THX - Juergen

Problem solved reading this thread:
https://discussions.apple.com/thread/394591?threadID=394591
Thanks a lot :-)

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