How can I change a mail account and keep all email?

Brought my G4 home after our business closed. I want to simply change my email account info from my work info to my personal info without losing any of the saved emails from work. Did that make sense? How can I do that? I tried just changing my email address and server settings but I can't get any mail, the program times out.
Thanks very much for any advice!
Cheers,
Jon

Jon, First Quit Mail, then I'd backup these two Mail folders, by right clicking on them in the Finder, then choose Archive/Compress.
Users/YourUserName/Library/Mail
Users/YourUserName/Library/Mail Downloads
(Could be a different folder here if you chose such in Mail Prefs)
Right click on that Mail folder, choose archive, you'll get everything in the folder, and the folder itself in a file called Mail.zip, move it to a safe place, same for the Mail Downloads folder... only the plist is separate.
/Users/YourUserName/Library/Preferences/com.apple.mail.plist
I think not getting the Mail is a different problem. Are they differen't ISP at work & Home?
Which Ports is it using?
IMAP or POP on both?

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