Exporting mailboxes from older emac to new imac

How do I transfer the many mailboxes I have set up to sort my email in mail from an old emac to a new imac. I currently connect using earthlink and when I opened the email in the new Imac the inbox came over, but none of my downloaded mailboxes or older emails came. Where does the emac store these files?
emac and imac   Mac OS X (10.4.8)  

An Earthlink account is a POP account so messages available in the account's Inbox at the server will be downloaded only when creating the email account with Mail or another email client such as Mail on another computer.
User created "On My Mac" location mailboxes created in Mail are stored locally on the hard drive and although you used these many mailboxes created in Mail on your old eMac to sort/store messages received by your Earthlink account, these mailboxes have no association with the account at the incoming mail server level for Earthlink so will not be automatically created when creating your Earthlink account in Mail on your new Mac.
Since you did not use the Migration Assistant, you need to use the Import Mailboxes feature in Mail on your new Mac to import these user created mailboxes from Mail on your old Mac. All imported mailboxes will be placed in an Import folder that is created automatically by Mail and this process will not create these "On My Mac" location mailboxes that you created on your old Mac.

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