Can't import emails

I suspect this problem will have been dealt with before on this forum, but anyway...
I recently lost a lot of emails when I deleted an account.
I have a backup of them in an iomega 60gb hdd.
The file that I backed up was Home> library> mail... I dragged the mail folder to the hdd.
when I try to import them back (mail > file > import mailboxes) I get this message: "No valid mbox files were found"
I have tried with different files but always get the same message.
Can anyone help?
Many thanks
Mark

mbriscoe wrote:
Thanks Bjorn, the Drafts.mbox folder is just now located in a folder titled: untitled2
So as you suggested I tried to import this untitled2 folder but I still get the same message: "No valid mbox files were found"
V.K. when you say "don't import it as mbox. import it as Mac OS X Mail." do you mean I should change the extension title of the folder to someting like: drafts.MacOSXMail...? didn't quite get what you meant...
No. what I meant is that when you are importing you have several import options. the last one is "mbox files" and the next to the last one is "Mail for mac OS X". that's the one you need to choose. and then choose Drafts.mbox folder to import. this should work (at least it does for me).

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