Many mac users backup their Mac Mail to disc. Importing it back into Mac Mail to retrieve some mail can be a confusing and frustrating experience. The 'Import Mailboxes' in Mail is looking for a .mbox file within the folder of your backup.
I've a dot.mac mail account and a cable pop3 mail account, backed up onto a dvd. Could I get Mail to import the pop3 account from the disc? Nooooo! It could get the dot mac stuff but the pop3 was all but invisible.
Ok, so Mail wants to be stoopid, I decided to keep it real simple and dragged the pop3 folder onto the desktop ... and then sent Mail to Import Mailboxes and look in that folder on the desktop and wonders of wonders it found it and successfully imported my pop3 mail backup.
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