Imported mail library from old Mac to new one ... how to ...

I imported my "mail" and "mail downloads" folders from my old mac's library to my new one ... all my messages are still in there, but im just wondering on how to make them show up in my new mail
Thanks for any help

You talk about “importing”, but it looks like what you really did was just copying those folders. Also, it looks like you copied the folder where the messages are stored, but not the file where the account settings are stored...
Mail stores most preferences and all account settings in ~/Library/Preferences/com.apple.mail.plist (except the passwords, which are stored in the keychain). Everything else, including all your messages and mailboxes, is stored within the ~/Library/Mail/ folder.
If both computers are running the same major version of Mac OS X, copying these (the preferences file and the entire Mail folder) from one computer to the other is all you need to do in order to have an exact copy of all your messages, mailboxes and Mail settings on both computers.
Similarly, Address Book (which you may want to transfer as well) stores the settings in ~/Library/Preferences/com.apple.AddressBook.plist and the data in ~/Library/Application Support/AddressBook/.
In order to avoid potential permissions issues, copy the files operating on the destination computer and while logged in as the user that’s going to use them. Also, be sure the affected applications aren’t running on either computer while doing that.
Alternatively, you may use Migration Assistant:
Transferring data with Setup Assistant / Migration Assistant FAQ
BTW, there is no point in transferring the ~/Library/Mail Downloads folder. The files that Mail puts there are just temporal copies to let you open the attachments in other applications without having to manually save them first. Unless you’ve modified any of those attachments after opening them and haven’t saved them elsewhere, there is nothing in that folder that needs to be preserved. The attachments themselves are kept as part of the messages.
Note: For those not familiarized with the ~/ notation, it refers to the user’s home folder. That is, ~/Library is the Library folder within the user’s home folder, i.e. /Users/username/Library.

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