How do I delete an email account, but keep the email?

I have an email account from ISP that I no longer use. I want to delete the account, but I don't want to lose the email. How do I delete the account and save all of the email?
Can I create a folder and move all of the email from the account I want to delete to the folder? From what I've read so far the email would still be deleted from that folder.
This seems like it would be a common occurrence with a lot of people, so I'm surprised that there is not an solution from Apple. Apple indicates that if an email account is deleted you will lose all of the mail. There should be an option when you delete the account that asks "Do you what to keep all of the email from this account? Yes/No". If yes then the system automatically saves email to an archive folder or something similar.
Hopefully there is an easy workaround solution.

Create a new "On My Mac" mailbox and move the messages to it. Then delete the account.

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I want to delete a Mail Account. But, I want to keep all of the email that was associated with that account. If I move the email to another folder within Mail, will that do the trick?

Stephen Levin wrote:
OK, I'm totally confused.
Here is what I normally do:
Check my email (all POP accounts).
It comes into my inbox.
As I deal with a message, I move it from my Inbox to the appropriate folder On My Mac.
That way I end up with just a few emails in my Inbox at any time.
The way I move my messages is I select them and I drag them to the appropriate folder On My Mac.
I know this deletes them from the Inbox and adds them to the folder I am moving them to.
that's moving. when you copy, the original remains in the inbox and a copy is added to the destination folder.
But, I'm pretty sure that when I do so, the Activity Window says I am copying them.
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I think that the only mail that Mail will delete is the email in the Inbox, Trash, Outbox, and Sent Mail for that Account, but am looking for confirmation.
that's correct.
If that is the case, I don't care about the Trash, I'll make sure the Outbox is empty, and I'll move all of the messages for that Account out of the Inbox and Sent Mail before I delete the Account.
What do you think, will that work?
yes. sorry for confusing you before. This should work just fine.
My suggestion was simply that you copy messages instead of moving them as you've been doing. once the copy is successful you can delete the originals or just delete the account and the originals with it. you don't have to do it but that's a safer operation then moving them directly when you have to do it with a lot of messages at once. That's all. I've seen posts by people who were trying to move large numbers of emails between mailboxes and had Mail choke on the operation. that can result in a loss of emails.
If not, how can I hide the Account I'm no longer planning on using. Right now Mail keeps trying to check it every time I check my Mail and I get that broken icon next to the folders.
In case the OS matters, I'm running the latest version of 10.5 on a Power PC.
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Thanks-
mg

Thank you for your suggestions. I've had a few bugs crop up in the process, though. My first step was to move all 659 "sent" emails from the sent box of the old account to the sent box of my current .mac account. I hit command "A" to select all of the sent emails in the sent box window, then selected "move to" from "message" in the menu bar and selected the .mac sent box as the destination. It seemed to take at least 15 minutes to complete the process, and although the sent box of the old account was empty, it appeared when I clicked on the .mac sent box that not quite all of the 659 emails had transferred, missing almost 300 sent emails.
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It looks like Mail is working correctly, all the emails from my old account I wanted to keep are there in my "On My Mac" folders, and the old account is deleted. I'm not sure what happened when all the email in Mail initially disappeared right after I deleted my old account, but I'm sure there's an explanation. Copying my user mail folder before I deleted my old account did save me a panic attack, so I would highly recommend that suggestion I was given in case of problems or bugginess.
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http://support.apple.com/kb/ht4627
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This explains transferring purchases.
http://support.apple.com/kb/HT1848

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