Apple Mail Inbox Lost

At work we just switched from one email ISP to another due to a DNS blacklist for the old one. When we switched to the new email server and the settings were configured for the new mailbox, my boss lost all of his Apple mail that was on the old server. Is there a way to recover this? I was just checking his settings, and he did not have Mail activated in iCloud. I feel like we had this happen once before, but I'll be darned if I can remember how it was resolved.

You’re welcome.
According to what you said in your first post, this happened as a result of downloading your mail on the iPhone. I have no idea how the iPhone works or what its capabilities are, but are you sure your .Mac account is set up as IMAP there as well and not as POP?
Mail stores most preferences and all the account settings in ~/Library/Preferences/com.apple.mail.plist (except the passwords, which are stored in the keychain). Everything else, including all your messages and mailboxes, is stored in ~/Library/Mail/.
Similarly, Address Book (whose data you should back up as well) stores the settings in ~/Library/Preferences/com.apple.AddressBook.plist and the data in ~/Library/Application Support/AddressBook/.
These files can be backed up just like any other data files. The affected applications shouldn’t be running while making the backup.
Actually, while you’re at it, you might as well back up your entire home folder...
For IMAP accounts, if Mail > Preferences > Accounts > Advanced > Keep copies of messages for offline viewing is set to All messages and their attachments, Mail keeps a local copy of those messages on your hard disk that becomes part of any backup that includes the ~/Library/Mail folder.
Note: For those not familiarized with the ~/ notation, it refers to the user’s home folder. That is, ~/Library is the Library folder within the user’s home folder, i.e. /Users/username/Library.

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