I deleted all mail on server. How do I restore .mac mailboxes from backup?

My .mac mailbox was almost full so I went to my .mac account through my browser and deleted everything and emptied the trash. Then when I looked in my mail.app on my imac all my emails were gone from my .mac account. I have a complete backup, but when I copied to user/library/mail/my .mac folder (which has about 6 subfolders), nothing showed up in my mailboxes on my desktop. How can I restore my .mac mailboxes.? And how do I setup my .mac mail so it doesn't stay on the server at all but only on my own hard drive?

Hello,
Either resetup your .mac account as Account Type POP, or simply create some On My Mac mailboxes and move the messages from your .mac Inbox to these one or more On My Mac mailboxes (created as New Mailboxes).
When set up as Account Type .mac, it is the same as IMAP, and the Inbox resides on the server, as normally does the Sent mailbox. The strong point of IMAP accounts is that the Sent and Inbox synce between computers since the mailboxes reside on the server. Most people choose a .mac account specifically because the mailboxes reside on the server.
When you first reconnected with Mail, after using web access to delete, it synced the empty Inbox, as would be expected with an IMAP or .mac account. If you have a backup copy of any xxxx.imapmbox folder that once existed on the server, then you can rename that to be xxxx.mbox and Import it into Mail. This would include the INBOX.imapmbox folder from the copy of your .mac account folder.
Ernie

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The reason that I could not find the "Import mailbox" feature: I looked in the Mailbox tab, where one would expect it to be.
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