Can I dump a .Mac account from Mail on 1 computer and not lose the data on

I have 3 Macs: eMac, intel iMac, Macbook; all are using Mac Mail. 2 users look at our single .mac IMAP account daily; my son never uses it on his machine. Consequently he's accumulated thousands of messages, attachments, etc. on his machine that he'll never use. I want to dump the .mac account from his machine but I know If I delete messages on one machine it will dump them from the server. Can I first delete the account on the intel iMac, then go to the appropriate mail folder on his machine & empty it of files to reduce the clutter without affecting what's on the .Mac server and subsequently the messages on the other 2 machines?
Thanks for your help

If the messages are on the server then there are no messages on his machine. Thus, if you dump the account all the messages on the server will be permanently lost. An IMAP account leaves all messages on the server.

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