Mac Mail other accounts "lost"

I am running iMac with Lion 10.7.3. I had a power outage this morning which shutdown my iMac. After powering up my Mail now only has one email account available, I should have nine. I researched online and found suggestion to restore my permissions file from Time Machine. I did that, rebooted and run Repair Permissions from the Disk Utilities. All to no avail. This is now critical as while I can retrieve emails for all my accounts the sent mail folders from my iMac are very important. I am now getting a little desperate, could someone help please.

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I am running iMac with Lion 10.7.3. I had a power outage this morning which shutdown my iMac. After powering up my Mail now only has one email account available, I should have nine. I researched online and found suggestion to restore my permissions file from Time Machine. I did that, rebooted and run Repair Permissions from the Disk Utilities. All to no avail. This is now critical as while I can retrieve emails for all my accounts the sent mail folders from my iMac are very important. I am now getting a little desperate, could someone help please.
Do you have a current backup of your system?
Pete

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