How to move some mail from another Mac?

My main Mac was in the shop for a week - the Apple people just fixed it (hooray!)
while it was gone, I was receiving my mail on an older computer.
if I take that week's worth of mail, and put it into a folder, is there anyway to copy that folder (and the mail therein) and put it into the other Mac, which is back from the shop?
thanks!
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You didn't mention before that your old computer was running Tiger.
Tiger Mail, indeed, doesn't have archive function so
the transfer process is slightly trickier.
1. Archive all your mailboxes on the new computer the way i described above.
2.Make sure Mail is not running on the new computer.
Copy the directory homedirectory/Library/Mail and the file homedirectory/Library/Preferences/com.apple.mail.plist from the old computer to the corresponding location on the new one.
3. Start Mail. It should have the account setup and the mailbox content of your old computer. Import your achived mailboxes.

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