How can I restore a mail account with all the old mails?

I just searched the this topic list, and found some articles which seemed to address the same problem, but I was not able to restore the data.
When setting up a new mail user, we erased all the data from the previous user and I urgently need to get that data back - meaning all emails. How can I do that?
thanks for any help,
Alexandra

Since I'm assuming this is not an IMAP account, there are only two things you can do.
Restore the mail from a backup, if you have one (it would be in the old users home directory - in /Library/Mail).
Pay for a data recovery service to reclaim the deleted files from the hard disk (assuming you haven't over-written those disk sectors already in setting up the new user - if so, the data is unrecoverable).
P.S. If it was a POP3 account, BUT, the mail had been set to save message copies on the server, then you could recreate the previous mail account and re-download them.
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