Cant import Mailboxes and Messages since upgrading to Tiger

I exported all my mailboxes and messages in Mail under Panther. I then did a clean install of Tiger erasing the HD. If I import mailboxes from Mac OSX, then it doesn;t import anything. If I import mailboxes from "other" then it imports the empty mailboxes, but there are no messages inside. Rebuild is grayed out in the Mailbox menu, so that isn't an option. I have tried manually copying the mailbox folders, but to no avail.

I just had the same problem.
Trying to upgrade my G3 iBook from 10.2.8 to Tiger was a disaster (currently in the shop), so the long awaited new computer purchase happened a bit early. I have a firewire drive backup of my entire "house" profile, including the library, with all my mailboxes under the "Mail" folder.
Started my new G5 iMac, opened Mail 2.0.5, got it working, and then attempted the import function, going to the "Mail" folder on my external firewire drive. It imported about half of the folders, and nothing is in them (the older version of mail is whatever was last supported by 10.2.8).
When import didn't work, I tried to manually copy the mailboxes from the external firewire drive into the Mail directory - best I got was the same result - not all folders, and what I got was empty.
What's the deal? I expected Apple products to have trouble reading MS stuff, but I can't read email from an older version of Apple's Mail?
Please help... seems to be a common problem, but no answer.
- Jeff

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Alternatively, you may want to set up Mail from scratch and manually import your mail back afterwards. This would allow you to use Mail normally while solving the problem of importing the old mail as you see fit:
1. Quit Mail if it’s running.
2. In the Finder, go to ~/Library/. Move (not copy) the entire Mail folder out of there, to the Desktop.
3. In the Finder, go to ~/Library/Preferences/. Locate com.apple.mail.plist and move it to the Desktop.
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5. You’ll have to re-configure all your settings in Mail > Preferences. For spam-related security reasons, the first thing you should do is go to Preferences > Viewing and disable Display remote images in HTML messages if it’s enabled.
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Yet I'd like to mention the true ones of merit are the contributors of the original Japanese thread. I've just summarized and translated a bit.
Regarding why it takes so long to fix this bug/flaw, I suspect that it is because it won't affect the majority of American users who do not use input method at all, and besides, it seemingly affects only Carbon API, that Apple Computer Inc. is liable to neglect lately.
However, input method is a vital piece in CJK (Chinese, Japanese, Korean) languages, and any other languages that use more than 256 characters, and also quite a few Carbon applications are still in service, so for us (Japanese, e.g.), this bug/flaw is quite unacceptable.
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