Removing an e-mail account in Mail

I want to remove my mail account from a secondary computer in the house and just have it on my main computer. I have gone to "account" in Mail and clicked the little minus button at the bottom, which does indeed remove the account. However, when Mail is relaunched, there is shows up again! It's as though it cannot be removed from this computer. Any ideas?? Thank you!

What version of OSX are you using? Is the subject account a .mac account? If it is a .mac account, open System Preferences/.Mac and remove the info there under Account (may depend of the version of OSX you are using).
Ernie

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