Adding IMAP account, then deleting POP account

I am not a MAC user, I am helping my mother in law clean up her MAC messes and need some expert advice.
Her mail was set to a very old POP protocol and I created a new IMAP account. In the MAC mail app, there is a group of folders called "on my mac". If I delete the POP account, will these folders get deleted too? The deletion dialog warns all folder associated with the POP account will be deleted, but I don't understand which folders are connected to the POP account. I do not need to preserve the POP inbox or trash as the transition from POP to IMAP is the same ISP account and the new IMAP inbox has all the unread new mail. Thanks.

My nervousness comes from here:
"Apple Mail With the Apple Mail program, if a mailbox (an “account”) is deleted, it removes all messages associated with that mailbox. It will also delete all local mail folders (those which normally show up under “On My Mac”). "
found here:
https://support.tigertech.net/mail-safely-delete-account

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