Mail (Mountain Lion): Remove accounts
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Removing an account removes the account information from Mail and deletes the account’s mailboxes and messages that are saved on your Mac.
Warning: Deleting a Post Office Protocol (POP) account permanently deletes its mailboxes and messages from your Mac and cannot be undone. However, if you’ve been backing up files using Time Machine, you can use it to recover previous versions of deleted mailboxes.
- Choose Mail > Preferences, and then click Accounts.
- Select the account you want to remove.
- Click Remove (-).
Removing an Exchange or Internet Message Access Protocol (IMAP) account doesn’t permanently delete the account’s mailboxes and messages because they are stored on the mail server. To retrieve the account’s mailboxes and messages from the server, add the account again in Mail.
Last Modified: Sep 4, 2015