Import sent email

My old hard drive is failing and I setting setting up a new HD. I'm unable to find or import any of my old sent email, let-a-lone the mail boxes that they were organized into.
Because old HD is failing I only have limited access to it.
Where is the "sent" email kept (path) or what is the easiest way to import my old sent email into a Mail?
Thank you
G4 800 Mac OS X (10.4.7)

Mail stores all your mail within the ~/Library/Mail/ folder, and all the account settings in the ~/Library/Preferences/com.apple.mail.plist preferences file. Salvaging and then restoring these two is all you should need to do. Let me know if you need further assistance or more specific information.
Note: For those not familiarized with the ~/ notation, it refers to the user's home folder.

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I'm going to ask the same question: Do you have a Time Machine backup?
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EXPORTING
    filename                      = 'c:\wagonTrain.gif'
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HAS_FIELD_SEPARATOR           = ' '
HEADER_LENGTH                 = 0
READ_BY_LINE                  = 'X'
DAT_MODE                      = ' '
CODEPAGE                      = ' '
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