Complete reinstalled my mac saved mails only by drag them to my external hd

Hi
I only saved my mails by drag my folders inside of the mail application to a firewiredrive. For example: Folder "Don´t´touch". Now I have this folder on my external drive, and want to import it to my new installed mac. The foder looks now: Don´t touch.mbox. I can´t import this folder about the import function. Any suggestions
Martin

Martin,
Create an ordinary folder on your Desktop. Drag two or three of the xxxx.mbox folders from you ExHD to be copied into this folder. Then in Mail, choose Import Mailboxes/Mail for Mac OS X and point to this folder -- do not choose any of the individual xxxx.mbox folders, but only the enclosing folder, and click Choose. What should happen then, is a new window, and those xxxx.mbox folders should appear by name, and with a box, with check mark, indicating the default to import them all. Have all checked, and then click on the Continue button button.
Keep me up-to-date.
Ernie

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