Mail connections after account deletion

Hi all
I'm observing a 'strange' behaviour in my mail application.
Several times ago I had an email account; later on, no more useful, I canceled it from the mail account list.
This happened more or less 2 months ago.
Today, due to the fact mail got some connection problems during new mail check process, I tried to deepen where these problems occured, and I discovered it was due to this old (and canceled) email account.
Can anybody tell me why this happens and how I can definitely cancel this email address from the account list to be checked up by mail ?
Thanks in advance
Luca

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This will permanently delete the account setup information, mailboxes, and messages from your computer. Messages stored on the mail server will not be affected.For IMAP-type accounts, this is not a problem because mail is stored on the server. If you deleted a POP account, however, your mail has certainly been wiped out from the computer, not just moved somewhere.
To prevent that from happening, you should have moved your mail to custom “On My Mac” mailboxes instead of leaving it in the account’s mailboxes. Actually, using the account’s Inbox and Sent mailboxes for archiving purposes is a bad idea regardless.
If you don’t have a backup (which you should have made before doing something like that), you may try to salvage as many deleted .emlx files as possible with a data recovery tool such as Data Rescue II or FileSalvage. Of these, the only one I know for sure that can currently recover deleted .emlx files is FileSalvage. Stop using your computer right now if you want to try that, as anything you do with the computer may cause the deleted files to be overwritten.

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