How to exclude an account in mail.app from time machine

Is it simply a matter of putting the account's folder from user/library/mail/ into the exclusion list on the time machine pane?
thanks

If you mean one Mac user, yes.
If you mean only one mail account for one user, then you need the proper sub-folder.
Note that +Address Books,+ however, are in each user's +/Library/Application Support/AddressBook+ folder.

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