Get old Mail-Accounts

Hello,
i had the problem that my user-database crashed.
With the help of an apple supporter i can use my old user-account and have all files back, now.
There is only one problem. If i start Mail.app I have to create a new Account and can't use the old Accounts that are already in ~/Library/Mail.
How can i get these account back?

Tobe,
Your objective is to have EVERY xxxx.mbox folder contain only the file Info.plist, and the folder Messages -- these are the only files needed by Mail 2.0 to be in each mailbox.
In the one INBOX.mbox you provided data for, it would seem that if the old holder of message content, the "mbox" file is only 56 KB, and the Messages folder is 31.2 MB, then you could safely delete all files in this INBOX.mbox EXCEPT Info.plist and the folder named Messages. Messages contains the actual message content. The other files are detrimental to Mail accessing this mailbox.
You could do this for every xxxx.mbox folder within the Mail folder, and your ability to access would return. The issue would be if you found the "mbox" file in any xxxx.mbox folder to be larger than the Messages folder in size -- this would be there could be messages you had while running Panther, that did not get placed in the Messages folder. This was the comparison I suggested you make of every mailbox.
Quit Mail. Let me suggest that in the Finder you Duplicate the Mail folder, and drag the resulting copy to the Desktop for backup. In the original Mail folder, open every mailbox, whether in each account folder, or any in the Mailboxes folder, and simply delete every file within, EXCEPT Info.plist and Messages. Also in the Mail folder locate the Envelope Index file, and delete it.
Start Mail again, and allow it to continue when it says it is ready to import all your mailboxes -- this is only referring to those in the Mail folder already, and will actually be re-indexing them, and creating a new Envelope Index file.
Many people have successfully done this exercise, and I am sure you can too. However, if any doubt, continue to ask questions. Once all your mailboxes are again displaying messages, you can decide if you think any messages have been lost, and therefore might found in the backup copy of the Mail folder, now on your Desktop, and we can talk about how to do that.
All the best,
Ernie

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