E-mails have vanished.....

Greetings,
I had something odd happen today. I had to create a new e-mail account, as my old e-mail account no longer works. Much to my surprise, when I did this all the e-mails in all of my mailboxes vanished. Horror-struck, I began to go through menus looking for something that could restore them. The only thing I found was 'import mailboxes'. I tried using this, and found in my library/mail folder an older mailbox, I imported this, but the e-mails were from 02-03.
If anyone can tell me how to find these e-mails, I would be VERY greatful.
Ray Lane

Hello, Ray
When you remove an account, those mailbox unique to that account are lost, and only MIGHT be found with a data recovery program. When you remove an account, a warning is given that the mailbox for that account will be lost. Each account has its own set of Inbox, Sent, etc.
New Mailboxes that you create, and which are referred to as On My Mac mailboxes, are immune to such disappearance.
Ernie

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