Importing Tiger Mail to Panther Mail

Hi,
My drive with 10.4 (Tiger) is having problems booting and am using a backup drive which has 10.3 (Panther) on it. I am trying to import my mail box from the 10.4 disk to the 10.3 disk but it doesn't see any of my mail from my original hard drive. Does Mail 2 do something different with the mailboxes? Any one have any suggestions? Thanks.
Jack

Hello Jack.
Tiger Mail uses a difference mbox format than used with previous Mail.app versions.
Each message contained in a Tiger mailbox is stored as a separate file in .emix format which is an Apple proprietary format designed primarily for Spotlight search capabilities but also reduces if not eliminates the "overstuffed" mailbox issue experienced with the mbox format used with previous Mail.app versions.
The Tiger mbox format is not backwards compatible to previous Mail.app versions without a workaround.
Check this link for an emix to mbox converter.
http://www.cosmicsoft.net/emlxconvert.html

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