Safest way to delete old account mailboxes

my user > library > mail folder contains several folders & mailboxes relating to accounts which are no longer used. these accounts are not listed in the accounts prefs inside apple mail.
is it safe to just delete these files in the finder ?
thanks

Yes, if you are sure you don't want any of those mails anymore, go ahead and delete those folders with Finder.

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Hello there.
What I had and did: I had a .com.ar account (from now on the .AR account) and just bought a .biz domain that I intend to start using from now on.
Both accounts are hosted by the same people and the .biz will receive the same emails that the .AR can receive. This is, if you send to any of the .AR or .BIZ, I will receive both in my MAC Mail.
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What you’re saying doesn’t make sense. What have you done to delete the old account?
Regardless, Mail stores most preferences and all account settings in ~/Library/Preferences/com.apple.mail.plist. Everything else, including all your messages and mailboxes, is stored in ~/Library/Mail/. Quitting Mail and getting rid of those files would allow you to set up Mail anew as if you had never used it before, if that’s really what you want.
Other folders you may want to trash as well if present, but that are unimportant, are ~/Library/Mail Downloads and ~/Library/Caches/Mail.
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Dear all,
We want to delete old transport request record before 2008 (two years before) of our system.
We learn that we should delete the records in the below two path:
/usr/sap/trans/data
/usr/sap/trans/cofiles
Our target is that we will not see the old record after deleting in our PRD system.
Normally, we see the transport request record in system by this way:
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--> Please test this first on a test system, not directly on a productive environment.
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I would like to delete the old account. How should I proceed?

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http://answers.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/forum/security?sort=lastreplydate&dir=desc&tab=Threads&status=&mod=&modAge=&advFil=&postedAfter=&postedBefore=&threadType=All&tm=1423101241327
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Eric Shawn2 wrote:
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