Apple Mail files for deleted account?

After I delete one of my Gmail accounts in Apple Mail, there still remains a folder at:
~/Library/Mail/V2/IMAP- (and then the email address of the removed/deleted account)
Does that make sense? I thought it deleted all data files.
Thanks for any info.

No, it doesn't remove the mbox data from deleted accounts. As to why, my best guess would be that if you are to add the email account again, the slow process of downloading and caching all the data from the email host server again is avoided. If you want to completely remove the IMAP account, you can safely delete the mentioned path.

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