Restoring E-mail from Time Capsule

My hard drive just crashed last Sunday. The mac store replaced it right away and I was able to restore most of my data from my time capsule. What I'm still having difficulty with is restoring all of my e-mail messages. It shows all my personal folders, but they are empty. I also have like 3,000 e-mails in my inbox, but those didn't come over either. I went back to the time machine and found them, I clicked on restore, whenever I go back to the time machine it shows the 3,000 messages as well as the messages in the folders, but on my actual machine itself they are still not showing up. Any help would be greatly appreciated. Thanks!

Since you know where the old emails are, in Mail go to File>Import Mailboxes. From here you can select either from Mail Account or Mboxes, it just depends on what you want to restore. The differences - if you choose Mail Account, point it to the base account folder (the one with all the mbox files in it) and you will import all the mailboxes (I believe you have an option to select all or individual mailboxes). If you choose to do just mbox files only, you bring in one mailbox at a time. Either will work. Once they are brought into Mail, a new sidebar choice On My Mac will appear with what you imported underneath in folders. To put them back, just click on the folder, hold 'command' then press 'A', that should highlight all the messages, click and drag them to the folder you want to put them all in (Inbox, Sent, etc).

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