Accidentally deleted mailbox

I accidentally deleted a mailbox ~ containing inbox and sent folder for a pop account. Didn't quit Mail, no crashes at issue.
The mailbox was still in Home/Library/Mail/ as POP etc folder, as per AndyBall–uk advice posted April 18, 2006, I copied and downloaded it onto the desktop. But need more clarification about importing it back into Mail.
Stated differently, as per Matt Volenec's posting of Jan 2, 2006 (Mailboxes are stored in Home/Library/Mail/Mailboxes and can be imported by creating and importing a folder containing the two corresponding mailbox folders recovered.), I am in need of more detailed instruction.
Where do you create the folder? How exactly do you import it or them again?
Can anyone help please?
PowerBook G4 Mac OS X (10.4.6)

Hi,
Now that you have your folder in your desktop, go ahead and launch Mail.
Depending on where you want to get your mail, you may want to create a new account first.
Go to File/Import Mailboxes
Choose Import data from: Mail for Mac OS X
A window will open that will let you choose the folder in your desktop. Everything will be recreated back in youhome/Library/Mail etc. as it was before. Let me know how it went.

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