Lost all emails after upgrade

I've just upgraded to Leopard 10.5.6 from an old version of Tiger. In the process I have managed to lose all my emails. I can neither send nor receive emails through Mac Mail, and when I click on the Mail icon in the dock, I can't even see the mailboxes. Any thoughts? I understand that this is a fairly common problem. Do I need to set up Mail again?

Ernie
Just tried this. No joy. See below for my notes on your answers
First let's see if the messages are still there, as I expect. YES Open a POP account folder -- do you find an INBOX.mbox folder, YES and if so, and open it, does it contain anything other than one Info.plist file (might not be there) and one Messages folder? Open the Messages folder -- does it contain a lot of xxxx.emlx files? YES If so, that means the message content is present, and should be retrievable.
If the various xxxx.mbox folders when observed indicate message content still present, then we can proceed.
When you upgraded to Leopard, was it immediately the version 10.5.6 -- that is, you never had Leopard running in an earlier version? THAT IS CORRECT
This is what I understood your first posts to report. If that is the case, make sure to Quit Mail, and then in the Finder drag all the file named to start with MessageRules to the desktop. Now relaunch Mail -- do any messages now display? If so, then you can restore those MessageRule . . . files after quitting Mail. I'VE DONE ALL THAT. ONE FILE IS MARKED MESSAGE RULES AND IT IS NOW ON DESKTOP
If no message yet display, again quit Mail, open the Mail folder in the Finder again, find the Envelope Index file and drag it to the Desktop (for later deleting probably). AGAIN NOW ON DESKTOP If you have any IMAP account, drag those account folders out of the Mail folder. NOT SURE WHAT AN IMAP ACCOUNT IS - SORRY Relaunch Mail, which should announce it is ready to import your email -- allow that to continue, and it should discover and reindex the message content from all the existing mailboxes.
Does that make any sense? Any other help would be appreciated.

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