Deleting old accounts and folders

I have a new email address i want to use in my mail but after ive deleted, the old account the old folders from that account and messages are still there! i want to restart it or something so its like new and free of old folders and messages, it wont let me manually delete these messages so what can i do? is there a reset? or what? please help! haha

What you’re saying doesn’t make sense. What have you done to delete the old account?
Regardless, Mail stores most preferences and all account settings in ~/Library/Preferences/com.apple.mail.plist. Everything else, including all your messages and mailboxes, is stored in ~/Library/Mail/. Quitting Mail and getting rid of those files would allow you to set up Mail anew as if you had never used it before, if that’s really what you want.
Other folders you may want to trash as well if present, but that are unimportant, are ~/Library/Mail Downloads and ~/Library/Caches/Mail.
Note: For those not familiarized with the ~/ notation, it refers to the user's home folder, i.e. ~/Library is the Library folder within the user's home folder.

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