How to import mbox folders?

I need to import part of a backup taken from ~/Library/Mail/Mailboxes into an IMAP account of Leopard server.
The folder I need to import, named "Archive", is full of subdirectories, like "2000", and mbox files like 2000.mbox. It was a local mailbox the client used to organize old messages in Mail.app
Unfortunately, the folder is about 12 GB. I tried importing it into Mail and moving the folders on the IMAP account but at some point Mail.app crashes (latest 10.5.1), it would take ages to do that this way...
Is there a way to import that folder directly into the server using a hard drive and still maintain the folder structure?
Thank you

This seems not easy... The "Archive" folder comes from Mail 2 so the mbox are not really mbox files but just folders that contain all the messages in emlx format.. I tried to use that but it won't accept the mail folder, just individual emlx files http://www.cosmicsoft.net/emlxconvert.html
Please help!

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