Where the heck does Mail store settings ? Every 30 days it shreds mine ARGH

Every month or so Mail shreds all my damned settings. I thought it was my actions for a while, but the laptop was OFF for a week, then i checked mail a couple of days, and then it shreded all my settings.
Mail is GONE.
Settings are worthless, and I cannot even remove the damned accounts and start over because Mail and KeychainAccess are screwing things up together.
Where are the settiings so I can shred them once and for all ? I am sick of having to make a new user account every month because of a email client!
Mac os 10.4.6
mail 2.0.7

The problem is that mail defaults to other 'autofill
form' information everytime it sends requests to the
servers (my best guess).
I have no idea what are you talking about here.
the keychain prompt will pop up asking
for a password for the server login...
I'm not sure what are you talking about here either, but I guess it's just that Mail asks you for your password from time to time. Unfortunately, this is normal behavior when Mail cannot establish a proper connection with the POP server for whatever reasons. It does not necessarily mean there is anything wrong with your password or with the keychain. This is just one of the many misleading and bogus error messages in Mail.
Yes, creating a new user account solves teh issues
almost immediately.
And just doing nothing and trying again after some time would probably have the same effect in most cases. That "creating a new user account solves the issues almost immediately" does not necessarily mean that "Mail shreds all [your] damned settings", nor that your "settings are worthless"
I just don't think I should have
to chown -R everything every 30 or so days.
Could you please elaborate on this?

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