Giving computer to new user- how should I change the email settings?

I bought a new MacBook Pro and want to give my husband my old one. How do I reset Mail so that it defaults to my husband's account, which is a .mac family member account attached to mine; the primary .mac account? We're also giving his MacBook to a co-worker and want to ensure that ALL personal information (banking, credit cards, emails, etc.) is erased permanently without erasing the applications.

If you want to remove your email accounts from the Mail.app on this Mac, you can delete your accounts from within Mail, which will erase all account mailboxes and messages for your account or accounts. Then create your husband's email account.
We're also giving his MacBook to a co-worker and want to ensure that ALL personal information (banking, credit cards, emails, etc.) is erased permanently without erasing the applications.
The only way to ensure all data is completely erased and not recoverable by any means (simply deleting data from the hard drive does not prevent the deleted data from being recovered from the hard drive with a data recovery utility), is by reformatting the hard drive, and then re-install the OS and all included applications included with the install package that shipped with this Mac.
Disk Utility provides several options for a secure erase of all data on the hard drive.

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