Apple Mail Saviour Needed!

Hi there,
So, while moving to a new mail server, I accidentally deleted my mailbox/account in Mail. It was a POP account.
Making a new account and connecting it to the server, restored all my messages in the inbox, but not the "sent" messages. I think there might have been an option to not store these on the mail server, but only locally on my Mac.
This archive of sent messages is vital to me, so I hope someone here can help me find and restore them.
I've already looked in my "Library/Mail folder and can see a "tree" of folders associated with my new account and a general one for "Mailboxes".
There's nothing for my old account.
As I navigate into the "Mailboxes" folder and look in the "Outbox.mbox, there're lots of folders, but when I eventually navigate to the end, the "Messages" folder, there are no files there. Usually there would be files with an .emlx extension.
Anyway, any help would be greatly appreciated.
Thanks,
Mads
Running Mail Version 5.3
OS X 10.7.5
2 x 2.4 GHz Quad-Core Intel Xeon

Hello! Looking in your ~/library/mail folder was a good step in the right direction.
Two things you can try:
1/ Copy that outbox.mbox to your Desktop. Then bring the Mail-application to the foreground, find the "File"-menu in the upper left corner of your computer display (somewhere to the right of the classic Apple-menu) and click import.
In the window that appears, choose "import from Apple Mail" (don't choose import from mbox) and see if you can import your outbox.mbox on your desktop this way.
You can find the imported mailbox to the left in your Mail application, it will be called "Imported"
If this didn't work you can try the same thing but now with choose import from mbox
2/ If above didn't work the outbox.mbox is not containing the messages you want. Do you use Time Machine? If so: while the Mail app is in the foreground, and while your back-up disk is connected, click on the magnifying glass in the upper right corner of your computer display. Spotlight will appear. Type the word: time into Spotlight. Time Machine should be a top result. Click on Time Machine.
Now Time Machine will open in the shape of your Mail application in a kind of Star Trek environment. Use the timeline on the right to find a day when your outbox was still working and click on it. You will "travel back into time" and your lost messages should reappear after a minute. Select them all using [cmd]+[a] and click the restore button down below.
These are the easiest two ways to restore emails. I hope they solve your issue.

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