Mail disappeared when acct deleted

Hi,
Thanks in advance for your help.
I deleted an email account which is inactive and I am no longer using.
When I did this, all emails in the inbox for this account, and in all all other mailboxes associated with the inbox for this account, disappeared from the mail app, replaced by blank space, even though all these messages had already long ago been downloaded by the computer from the server.
Does anyone know where these already received incoming messages reside on the computer, and how to view them?
Thank you,
Neil

neil97232 wrote:
I deleted an email account which is inactive and I am no longer using.
When I did this, all emails in the inbox for this account, and in all all other mailboxes associated with the inbox for this account, disappeared from the mail app, replaced by blank space, even though all these messages had already long ago been downloaded by the computer from the server.
What you saw is exactly what I'd expect to happen when an email account is deleted.
If you don't see any remnant of that account in "yourhomefolder"/Library/Mail, then your only option may be to restore that content from a backup.

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