Lost Mail Boxes with Mountain Lion up grade

I recently upgraded to Mountain Lion 10.8 and I've lost all my mailboxes of stuff that was I wanted to keep. Various e-mails over the course of a few years. How can I retrieve these back. I backed up the Mac prior tp the upgrade. What file should I be looking for. Thanks. Now using Apple 6.0 mail. Very learing of upgrading my 2nd Mac.
Steve
Wilmington, NC

On the left hand side of the mail window where you see inbox sent trash etc. there should be something that says on my mac, hover your cursor over that until "show" appears next to it, click show. Are your messages there?

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Back up all data.
Triple-click the line below to select it:
~/Library/Containers/com.apple.mail
Right-click or control-click the highlighted line and select
Services ▹ Reveal
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endobrendo wrote:
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~/Library/Containers/com.apple.mail
Right-click or control-click the highlighted line and select
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Back up all data.
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~/Library/Containers/com.apple.mail
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