I accidentally deleted my 1&1 account in mail and inbox / sent items lost

Can anyone help please?  I have transferred my domain name from 1&1 to godaddy today and the domain transfer has been successful but in the process of trying to set up my Mail account I inadvertently deleted the old 1&1 account from Mail preferences.  I didn't think that this would be a problem as all of the emails must be stored on my hard drive once they had been delivered to Mail, but when the 1&1 account had been deleted I lost all emails from my inbox, sent items and deleted items.  The personal folders that I have created to store emails in are all still there, but I am very worried that I have lost all of my sent items and all of the items in my inbox that were awaiting replies.
I have looked on here and people refer to going to Library and then Mail folder, but I don't have a mail folder.  I do have Time Machine so any recommendations where I can back up on would be appreciated.
1&1 have said that I can transfer my MX records back to them to restore my mail and then transfer them back to godaddy, but I have been waiting for 12 hours from the original transfer to take place and it still hasn't happened and I can't afford another day without being able to send or receive any emails.
I would also like to know how to ensure that i have a back up of my existing mail to make sure that i don't loose any more.
Any advice greatly appreciated. :-)

Was this a POP account, and where is your backup?
From now on use Time Machine to backup your Mac, for Mail you can also (not instead of) export any or all mailboxes to the desktop by rightclicking on the mailbox and choosing Export.

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