Empty Mailboxes after Time Machine Recovery

I just replace my iMac's hard drive and used Time Machine to restore software. However all my mailboxes are now empty, except for 8 new mail messages in my Inbox. Can someone please tell me how to find and restore my mailboxes? Thanks in anticipation.

Hey! I got an simliar problem her. My local folder in Mail seems to be empty after recovering my mac from TimeMachine.
But when i activate TimeMachine, all Mails are shown as "today". But no possibility to view them in Mail.

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