How do I restore email settings with Time Machine and Mountain Lion?

Like so many others, I have tried to follow suggestions of going to Library/Preferences/com.apple.mail.plist.
It does not exist. and it does not show up in any search. Here is a shot of my Finder... it's not there in Preferences.

to make your user library visible, in Finder hold down the option/alt key while selecting the Go menu item. Select Library.
If you want to make your user library permanently visible, run the below command in Applications/Terminal.
chflags nohidden ~/Library/
You will need to do that after any updates.

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