How do I transfer old mail & smart mailboxes from old iMac to Macboook Pro?

Hello. I just got my new Macbook Pro with Mac OSX version 10.5.2. I set up my mail account on the computers mac's mail application but I am having trouble transferring my old mail and smart mailboxes from my old computer (iMac with version 10.4.11). I transfered over everything in the "Mail" folder in the "Library", but my old mail and smart mailboxes with that mail are not showing up on my new computer. Any advice of how to do this please!?

Hi raenn, and a warm welcome to the forums!
The easiest way is to either network the 2 Macs, or use FW Target Mode on the older one..
http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=58583
Then use Migration Assistant in Applications>Utilities to import all that.

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