If i delete an account can i keep the emails?

I have changed service providers so my old email address no longer exists and i now have a new email address. I have created a new account in Mail with this new email address. I want to delete the old account in Mail but i want to keep the emails that i received when i had this account. If i delete the account, will these old emails be deleted with it?

If you delete an account and the home folder for it then yes, the emails will be gone.
A good person from this forum put me on this:
http://discussions.apple.com/message.jspa?messageID=6185507
It's all there.
good luck.
You do have backups just in case, don't you?

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