How do i get my mail back after erase & install of Lion?

I am not using Time Machine as Genius Bar at the Apple store told me it was best not to (I was continually having errors and so GeniusBar erased my hard drive and reinstalled Lion).
They said to then manually drag over documents onto my hard drive, avoiding the Applications, so no possible errors could be dragged back onto the clean hard drive.
But now I have Mail and none of my folders and previous accounts. Of course I can re-setup my accounts, but then they will just try to redownload all of the millions of emails I had before. None of the very organised folders I previously had, sent messages, etc, etc.
Is there a way around this? Thanks.

Problem is if those emails are not on the Mail servers they are gone for good. Sorry.
The only way to tell is to setup the accounts and see what gets downloaded.
Good Luck.

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