Any way to merge 2 mail stores?

Server running 10.4.9 crashed, and backups were fudged. We were finally able to get services back up and running, but could not get mail restored. Now we have the original mail folders, but someone turned on the mail service before we had moved over the data. So, now we have new data in place along with the backed up messages. Is there any way to merge the data to keep the old messages as well as the new? If any other information is needed, let me know...

1. To avoid overwriting anything, create a new folder for the user on the working mail server (through an IMAP client).
2. Next copy the messages/folders from the backup into this new folder.
3. When done, reconstruct the user by issuing "mailbfr -m username".
4. Repeat for each user.
HTH,
Alex
P.S. mailbfr is available here http://osx.topicdesk.com/tools/

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