HELP: I created mailbox (duplicate), then deleted original & lost emails

Late tonight I decided to change a mailbox name to all caps. I did it incorrectly selecting 'New Mailbox' and used a duplicate name. Afterwards I saw the original mailbox still existed (it appeared gray colored) and looked to contain identitcal subfolders only and no email. The newly created mailbox (blue colored) appeared with identically named subfolders which I opened to spot check and they appeared to contain all the emails. Thinking everything had been transfered to the new (blue) mailbox I deleted the original (gray) mailbox. Of course the gray mailbox diappeared as expected, but what I didn't expect was that it would take everything in the new blue mailbox with it. Can someone tell me if I've lost my emails completely? If so, do you know how I can retrieve them? Thanks.
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Each custom "On My Mac" mailbox is stored as a folder with a .mbox extension in the filesystem, located in HOME/Library/Mail/Mailboxes/. Under normal circumstances, you cannot have two items within the same folder in the Finder whose names differ in case only. It looks like Mail got confused by what you did (I would consider this a bug). The two mailboxes in Mail probably referred to the same physical folder in the filesystem, and deleting one caused both to be lost.
If your messages are still there, they should be in a Messages folder within the *.mbox folder. If not, then you know now how important it is to have a good backup strategy in place -- for some reason that escapes me, most people learn this the hard way, so you're not alone if that's your case as well.
If the messages aren't there and you don't have a backup, your only option is to try using a data recovery tool. I say try because I have yet not seen a single report of someone having success recovering deleted Mail 2.0 messages. Stop using your computer to avoid overwriting the deleted files if you want to go that route.

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