Organizing emails from different accounts - use "on my mac" folder?

Hello - I now have 5 email accounts - IMAP and POP - pulling into my Mail 3.6. I would like to be able to file emails from these accounts in common folders that will never get deleted from my mac.
For example, I would like to be able to save emails from multiple accounts into a "personal" or "work" folder that I can access forever. I think that making folders within the "On My Mac" section effectively removes them from the mail accounts and stores them on my machine. But I can't find any literature about this.
So is this the best way?
Does it matter if they are Pop or IMAP accounts?
Will they be deleted if the email account ever gets deleted?
Many thanks -

When you create a New Mailbox, On My Mac, it is on your hard drive, and not on any server. You always then have the choice to either Move or Copy messages -- the latter leaves a copy in the original mailbox (account Inbox, for example).
On My Mac mailboxes do not get removed when any account is deleted. On My Mac mailboxes are neither POP or IMAP, as only actual email accounts and their standard mailboxes or in the case of folders on the IMAP server are associated with an account.
Ernie

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