Stop Checking Mail Account

I recently had to stop using one of my email addresses -- and so I want Mail to stop  checking that account.
But I don't want to lose the existing emails. I'd like them to continue to show up in my In Box and Sent Mail folders.
Does anybody know if this is possible? If I disable the account, the existing mail disappears. If I deselect "Include when automatically checking for new mail," mail is still checked when I hit "Get Mail" -- and I still get an error icon next to the In Box folder.
Anybody have any suggestions? Do I have to move all the mail to another "on my mac" folder?
Thanks for any light anybody can shed --
Steve

Thanks -- good idea.
But I'm still seeing the little error icon (triangle with exclamation mark in it) next to the In Box. If I click it,  the account goes back online. But the error never goes away. This means that I can never tell when I really have a connection error -- because the error condition is always present.
Any idea?
Thanks again,
Steve

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