Mail account type change

We have a user who recently got an ipad.  Until now she only accessed her email via a laptop with mail.app or via a browser.  Now she wants to access with the mobile device and keep the laptop, ipad and server email messages in sync.
The email account is set up on her laptop as a POP account and as an IMAP account on the ipad.  We'd like it all to be set up using Exchange protocol. 
If we delete the existing POP account and re-establish the account as exchange, what will happen to all the old email messages on the laptop?  The user does not want to lose them.
Thanks for any help.
Rich

You can drag the mail folder (not the application or icon, the mail folder that houses the messages) to the desktop and all of her messages will be stored there and can be reimported back into the mail application. Its a good way to back up incase something happens!
If you're on OSX 10.7, its a hidden folder. In previous versions, you can spotlight search and the 'mail' folder will show up (not to be confused with the 'Mail Downloads' folder). If she's on OS X 10.7, you can find the folder like this:
1. Click the 'Finder' icon on your dock (happy face guy)
2. At the top of your screen you'll see the Apple > Finder > File > Edit etc etc... Click 'Go'
3. Select 'Go To Folder' and type ~/library and press 'Go'
4. (You should be in the library folder at this point) -- find the 'Mail' folder and drag it to the desktop.. then you can delete and re-add the mail account and reimport the mail and mailboxes.
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