how about avoiding any possible problem and don't delete the accounts... just have them no longer included in the fetch mail settings, I have some old ones hanging around like that and I moved them simply to the bottom of my accounts list and don't worry about nor think about them.
---marlyse ------------ former message(s) quotes: ------------- >I have found that deleting the account from PM means that any messages >that were retrieved from that account no longer have an account >associated with them (which makes sense). But I don't like having >'holes' in PM's information database -- that sort of thing can only >cause trouble if PM looks for some info that it expects and it isn't >there.

