How to retrieve emails from external drive?

The short version is, I made a bootable copy of my malfunctioning internal HD on an external drive. Sure enough, a catastrophic failure ensued, requiring the installation of a brand new HD. In the process of moving everything important (pictures, movies, documents,etc.) to the new drive, i'd like to get my old mail inbox and mailboxes over there as well. I found them, but short of forwarding each message individually, how can i transfer that stuff? I've tried "File/Import Mailboxes..", but that didn't work, each time i get "No valid Mail for Mac OS X files were found". I don't know if i'm doing something wrong or not, so any help would be appreciated.

Hi Milomo.
If you haven't got any new mail you need to keep yet, then...
Quit Mail, drag this file from the old location to the new location...
/Users/YourUserName/Library/Preferences/com.apple.mail.plist
Then move this folder from the old location to the new...
/Users/YourUserName/Library/Mail/

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