Taking one off a laptop without losing the email addresses off another laptop/iMac

I'm giving my old laptop to my daughter, and I would like to take myself off as the administrator, along with the email addresses (without deleting them off my other computers).  I've deleted the apps, photos, and music she won't need.  Yes I know I could have re-formatted the hard drive, but I didn't want to do that (not sure how I would do that).  So how do I eliminate myself as the administrator, and the email addresses?

Create another user account for your daughter by going to System Preferences (under the Apple menu) and selecting Users & Groups then click the lock in the lower left corner and authenticate. Next click the "+" button just above the lock and create a user for her, making sure that you check the box for Allow user to administer this computer.
Once you have created the new user account, log out of your user account and into the new one. Again go to System Preferences > Users & Groups, click the lock and authenticate. Select your old user and click the "-" button to delete it. When asked if you are sure you want to delete the user, select the Delete the home folder option, including the Erase home folder securely checkbox. Click the Delete User button. It may take a while to do this deletion, as the secure erasure requires a lot of writing to the hard drive, but it means your data is not recoverable by anyone.
I am assuming that you are using Mac OS X 10.8 for this. Older systems may be slightly different.
Note that any data on other computers will not be affected.
Best of luck.

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