Fixing a mail problem

Two weeks ago I made a complete backup of my 10.8.3 system using carbon copy cloner to an external drive. My web hosting service decided to make changes to some of their servers. I have always used the mail program on my Mac Pro with iCloud (never a problem) and added an additional account for mail coming into and out of my website.
Yesterday when I opened the mail program it generally fetches my iCloud mail and my website mail but it went into a tailspin beachball that wouldn't end - even after hours of waiting I had to force quit. Researching I found the advice to turn off the website mail account to see if that would return mail to normal. That did work and my iCloud mail and the mail returned to normal. But if I turned on my other account for my website the beachball returned.
The web hosting service had me make all kinds of changes to my second email account trying this server and that server, deleting my web site mail account and setting it back up again but we never found a fix. Now they say I shouldn't have made the changes and I should return my mail program settings back to what they were - but of course I don't know what they were prior to all the changes.
I'm hoping to start my Mac Pro from the backup external drive and copy back just the mail program and settings. I don't want anything else to change on my system. Is that possible with the Carbon Copy Cloner program I previously used to back up my system? If so, do I just uncheck everything I don't want overwritten and check only the mail features and directories?
Thanks for the help!

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~/Library/Mail/V2/MailData/Accounts.plist
Right-click or control-click the highlighted line and select
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from the menu bar, paste into the box that opens (command-V). You won't see what you pasted because a line break is included. Press return.

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