Importing emails from old machine

I'm just in the process of copying data from a Time Capsule over to a new MBP, but some emails haven't appeared in my email account. The folders are in Mail OK, and the messages are in the Library/Mail/Mailboxes folder OK, but the messages don't appear in Mail.
Can anyone let me know how I can import them into Mail?
Cheers.

try rebuilding Mail index. quit Mail and delete the file homedirectory/library/mail/envelope index. then start Mail and let it import (that means reindex) messages.

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