My mail will not work on my Mac (mountain lion) or connect to iCloud.

Since upgrading I cannot connect Mail to iCloud. In mail preferences the box, incoming mail server, is greyed out with the words"mail.example.com" I cannot change it yet I cannot save mail preferences because a message comes up that this box needs to be filled in. As well, I cannot connect to iCloud in system preferences despite changing my password. (All works on my iPad). In mail of course all my accounts are offline no matter what I do. I have upgraded many times (since OS 7) and this has been the worst. Ideas?

Steve,
If the mail was moved to a mailbox under "On My Mac", it should no longer have any connection to the original mailbox. Deleting (delinking) the IMAP email account from Mac Mail should have no effect on that message.
In fact, I just confirmed that by adding an IMAP email account of mine to this Mac (which had not used it before), sending it a message from my phone, moving the message to an "On My Mac" mailbox, and deleting the account from Mac Mail. The moved message remains in the "On My Mac" mailbox. Re-adding the IMAP account to Mail makes the server mailboxes available again.
Note that the situation would be different for an account accessed through POP, depending on mail retention settings. Any mail which had been downloaded to your Mac, deleted from the server immediately of after a period of time, but left in Mac Mail's Inbox for that POP account, would truly be lost if you delete the POP account from your Mac. This may be the situation of which you were warned.

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