Mail backup retrieval how?

My computer hard drive crashed. I was able to back up the entire drive and am now in the process of recopying everything back. Is it possible to find all my email and restore it as it was before? Your help would be greatly appreciated. I had extensive folders holding all kinds of information (including software codes, etc, which I desperately need) that I would like to access. Thanks in advance for any help you can give.
Catherine

Please confirm, your OS is 10.4.7. What mail program do you use, and what version.
The mailboxes are on your backup drive, the trick is to navigate to them. I'll try to help when you confirm the OS vers
ion and the mail program and version.

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