Error message when migrating Mail.

I've installed Yosemite on a 5 or 6 year old iMac. When I try and open mail it starts to migrate my old data and I get this error message:
Your Mail index has been damaged. To repair it quit Mail. Mail will repair the index the next time you open Mail.
First off, Mail is not open. When I try and open it, it starts to migrate again and I get the same error message.
Thanks for any help.

I recently upgraded from OS X 10.6 to 10.10. I encountered failure identical to the above post. Here was one possible workaround
Restore a recent backup of my computer (running 10.6) to an external drive.
Startup my computer from the external drive.
Upgrade to 10.7. (I suppose 10.8 or 10.9 might have worked.)
Launch "Mail" and allow it to upgrade mail from 10.6 to 10.7. Repeat this step for each user account of the computer.
Upgrade to 10.10.
Launch "Mail" and allow it to upgrade mail from 10.7 to 10.10. Repeat this step for each user account of the computer.
Thoroughly test to ensure all data is present.
Use a cloning app such as SuperDuper, clone from the external drive to the internal drive. This will erase the internal drive, so step #7 above is critical.
Variants of this procedure are possible. For example, this variant involving Migration Assistant also seems to work.
Restore a recent backup of my computer (running 10.6) to an external drive.
Startup a computer from the external drive.
Locate a computer running 10.7. (I suppose 10.8 or 10.9 might have worked.)
Use Migration Assistant to relocate your account(s) from the 10.6 external drive to the 10.7 computer.
Launch "Mail" and allow it to upgrade mail from 10.6 to 10.7. Repeat this step for each user account of the computer.
Thoroughly test to ensure all data is present.
Startup your computer in the already upgraded 10.10.
Delete your account(s) from 10.10. This will erase data, so step #6 above is critical.
Use Migration Assistant to relocate your account(s) from the 10.7 computer to your 10.10 computer.
Launch "Mail" and allow it to upgrade mail form 10.7 to 10.0. Repeat this step for each user account of the computer.
Summation: If you want to keep "Mail", don't upgrade directly from 10.6 to 10.10. Step up with something in between. Hopefully a future patch to 10.10 will make the upgrade from 10.6 easier.
More advanced: If you are tech savvy and know where files are stored in the Library, you can just replace many steps above with a process involving just moving the needed files. These seem to be located here in 10.6 and 10.7...
~/Library/Mail/
~/Library/Mail Downloads/
~/Library/Preferences/com.apple.mail.*
Where ~ references your home folder such as Macintosh HD/Users/yourname, and where * is a wildcard for any characters.
Tip: If you launch the Mail app, stop and restart to avoid caching issues.

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