How to transer mboxes I set up from old G4 to new iMac? Help!

To organize my email, I had set up mailboxes for each client and stored messages there. I got a new iMac. I want to transfer these boxes from my G4. I copied an mbox and sent it as an attachment by email to new computer. I put it on desktop. But when I try to import, it says "No valid mail for OS X were found." The G4 is running 10.3.9. So I am not sure what to do. I tried just manually placing it in the mailbox in library but that did not work either. Any ideas?

Please, describe more accurately what it is exactly that you’re trying to do. In particular, what do you mean by “an mbox”? Are you trying to import a standard mbox file, or an .mbox folder (i.e. a Mail 1.x mailbox, which appears as a file in Mac OS X 10.3, but is something entirely different)?
Also, 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. If you select the wrong folder, Mail says “No valid Mail for Mac OS X files were found” because it cannot find any .mbox folders within the folder you’re selecting.
And if what you’re trying to import is a standard mbox file (e.g. the mbox file within the .mbox package where Mail 1.x stores the actual messages), you must choose Other as the data format, not Mail for Mac OS X.

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