Accidently deleted email account-- any chance I can get messages back?

Question

I've got 2 computers using the same email accounts. For many months I've used Mobile Me for the home email address, and a GoDaddy POP account for the work address. Mobile Me syncs the accounts but not the messages for the GoDaddy address. I manually send/receive messages with my GoDaddy account (pop server is set to store messages for a day so I can retrieve them on both computers)
Last night on my home computer I was given a message about needing to sync mobile me because something was reset or it was my first time syncing. The option selected was "merge all data." I restarted computer but continued to get this message. So I figured "what the ****" and I merged all data. Nothing seemed wrong with my home computer after I did this.
When I arrived to work this morning, my Mail application was showing a duplicate work account/address (go daddy). I'm assuming this was because of what I'd did the night before. By clicking on each duplicate account I discovered that the extra account had only been active since the night before. It only had new emails from the last few hours. The other work account contained all my messages just like it should.
So.....I deleted the extra work email account and kept my original account. My orignal work account still exists. All the emails are still in the account in my inbox..... BUT now when I click on these emails there is NOTHING shown for content. Each email opens to a blank page.
I'm pretty sure I'll still have the work emails on my home computer. If needed, Is there a way to transfer those emails to my work computer?
Any other suggestions?
Thanks for your help

Answer 1

are the mail setups on your two computers exactly the same? if yes you can quit mail and copy the folder /users/username/library/mail and the file /users/username/library/preferences/com.apple.mail.plist from the home computer to the corresponding location on the work computer. then when you start mail it will look just like it did on the home computer.
but if Mail setups are not exactly the same you shouldn't do this. instead copy the folder /users/username/library/mail from the home computer to the desktop (not to the library) on the work computer. next start mail and go to file menu->import mailboxes and select to import "Mail for OS X". choose the copied folder on the desktop and import the mailboxes you want. they will be imported into submailboxes of "Imported" mailbox in "on my mac" section and you'll have to move the messages from there to their appropriate locations.
the second procedure will work for any POP or local mailboxes but not for IMAP mailboxes.
Message was edited by: V.K.