Import Mail messages

I've just formatted my MacBook and now I want to restore my messages into Mail: what I've to do? I copied the messages into "INBOX" folder, but they are not visualized on Mail. I also tried to import them from "file->import mailbox" but it didn't work.

What are you restoring from? It would help to know what you backed up and how. In general there are three things you need to restore from your backup for Mail:
/Home/Library/Mail/ folder - the entire folder.
/Home/Library/Preferences/com.apple.mail.plist
/Home/Library/Preferences/ByHost/com.apple.mail.nnnnnnnnnnnn.plist (where "nnnnnnnnnnnn" is a numeric value in hexadecimal code.)
Because you have already opened Mail new versions of the above have already been created. Before copying the above from your backup be sure to quit Mail, then delete the new Mail folder that was created.

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