How to copy mailbox folders?

Hello everybody,
I have a G4 desktop and a powerbook, on both of them I have email folders for my only account.
SInce I will have to move and to leave home my G4, I would like to move all the archived messages, with their folders, to my other computer.
Could anyone please help me, telling me how to proceed?
I do trust in your help....
Thanks,
Ciao,
Manfredi

Hi David,
thans for your suggestion, actually I did solve my problem
"manually" following Matt's suggestion, but, when/if I should have the same need again, I will try the method you wrote about that seems quicker!
Thanks for your answer,
Take care,
Manfredi
Hello Manfredi.
You can import those mailboxes as Matt suggested, but
there is no need to export them first. Mail stores
custom “On My Mac” mailboxes in
~/Library/Mail/Mailboxes/. You can just do
File > Import Mailboxes on the
destination computer, choose Mail for Mac
OS X as the data format, and follow the
instructions to import the mailboxes located on the
other computer.
Pay attention to the instructions that Mail displays
when choosing Mail for Mac OS X as the data
format. In the next step, Mail wants you to select
the folder that contains the mailboxes to be imported
(i.e. the folder where the *.mbox folders to
be imported reside), not the *.mbox
folders themselves.
Note: For those not
familiarized with the ~/ notation, it refers
to the user’s home folder. That is, ~/Library
is the Library folder within the user’s home folder,
i.e. /Users/username/Library.

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