How can I move Snow Leopard mail POP messages on one computer to a Mountain Lion Computer

After seeing my iPad3 up close, my friend bought one so he could read his email while watching TV downstairs.  But that's when we discovered his iMac was processor-limited and couldn't accept LION (and the CLOUD)...  In an effort to "get a computer on the cloud", he bought a used Lion-capable computer and attempted to use his Time Machine to bring the newer computer up to speed.  All's well, except that he can't seem to move several hundred old (but important) messages to the new computer.  Appears that the Snow Leopard backup on Time Machine can't do the job.  I'm embarrassed that I didn't catch the failure to put iCloud on his computer and am a tad bit frustrated trying to get my arms around the problem...  Need some help.

Some things to try:
1. Go to Applications>Utilities>Migration Assistant and try remigrating the User Account with the mail messages from the Time Machine backup.
OR
1. On the old computer, copy the contents of the Mail folder (Library>Mail) for the user to a USB memory stick or similar. On the new computer, select and drag the contents of the Mail folder to the Trash. DO NOT EMPTY THE TRASH!
2. Quit the Mail program on the new computer.
3. Use the files on the memory stick to replace the files you dragged to the Trash in Step 2.
4. Launch the Mail program on the new computer.
5. If the program doesn't work "correctly" or starts doing unexpected things, use the files that are in the Trash to replace the files you copied over in Step 3.

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