Disable account but keep e-mail visible

Hey guys & girls
I'm using the latest Mail app for my emails and until now I've been using POP3 account. I have loads of e-mails and also sent items, which i need to keep.
Just today however I did an IMAP account. From now on, i will use this one instead. However I need to jump back and worth to see e-mails i have recieved yesterday and so on. If I disable the account in prefs, it will remove it from the view. If I enable it, for some reasons, all the emails sent will be using this old account. I can not change this so it would use the new IMAP account.
Just to make sure, I have the same e-mail address, just changed POP3 to IMAP.
Is there a way ti disable the account (no more checkin mails and using it to send mails) but keep my inbox and sent items still visible?
thanks!

Is there a way ti disable the account (no more checkin mails and using it to send mails) but keep my inbox and sent items still visible?
Yes, but it does involve some work.
First, you need to move (not copy) the folder for that POP account to your Desktop. Then, in Mail's preferences, delete that POP account entirely. Now you can setup the account as IMAP (although I think you'll regret that in the long run) and let it retrieve whatever email is currently there.
Next, you need to go to File->Import Mailboxes… and navigate to and select the folder that contains the POP mailbox for the messages you want to import; for example: /Desktop/[email protected]/INBOX.mbox/Messages and click Choose to proceed with the process.
When that's done, you'll have an 'Imported' mailbox in Mail, after which you need to create your own new mailbox for those old messages from your Inbox and label it Old Inbox, or something to that effect. Then go to the Imported mailbox and Select All messages in there and drag them onto the icon for the new mailbox you just created for them; they should now all be moved into that mailbox.
Now you can go back and import the other mailboxes (Sent, Drafts, Deleted, etc if you like) one-at-a-time, stopping after each one to create a new mailbox for them and moving the messages into them before proceeding with the next one.
When you're done with that, you can delete the 'Imported' folder(s), then quit Mail and restart it to see if everything is still the way you want it to be. If so, then you can delete the POP account folder you moved to your Desktop previously.

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