TS3276 email account passwords are constantly requested

I am using OS Lion and Mail and have 6 different email accounts running. All accounts work but periodically and I cant see an obvious pattern, various accounts ask me to input again the password for the account. I do this and always check the box to retain the password in the chain. But the password request will be made again at least once.
Has anyone experienced such a problem and is there an obvious reason and fix for this?
Thanks.

I'm having the same issue. It started a couple weeks ago when I changed the password of one of my iMap accounts. I've repaired permissions, deleted the keychain password items associated with the problem account and even deleted com.apple.mail.plist located in my home directory->library->preferences. None of these actions has solved the problem. I've searched the rest of the Internet but haven't found any suggestions for actions other than those already tried. This particular email account works fine with another client on my Android phone and via webmail so having an incorrect password isn't the problem.
Do you know of any files containing cached information that can be safely trashed?
As I type this it occurs to me that I didn't empty my trash after deleting the com.apple.mail.plist file. I'll try that now.
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I lost an email account password on my home computer but have the password saved on my blackberry, how can I reteive it? All i see when I look it up is ******.
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