Mail lost from .mac and locally, can i restore from cache???

Hi,
I have 2 years worth of messages about 3000 on .mac and have
set up tiger mail to view these via imap and cache all messages
and attachments locally.
A couple of days ago i got a warning you are running out of space from
.mac so deleted (via the webmail interface) the oldest 500 messages.
I also deleted them from trash (again via the web interface).
When i then opened mail it showed 0 messages. I then logged back
into .mac webmail and all messages had been deleted!!!
I emailed .mac support about restoring my account but am not getting
any sensible help.
I have located in my mail/imap folder the cache folder which contains most messages (no emlx extension) up to 17 June 2006, it is about 600Mb.
However the message folder is empty (contains one recent message).
I have tried setting up a dummy imap account and moving the data to it and attempting to import the mailbox back in but no joy. Most help I can find is targetted at people who still have the message folder intact.
Any help greatly appreciated!!!!!!!!
imac g5 1.8mhz   Mac OS X (10.4.7)  

Hi Toby.
Sounds like you upgraded to Tiger Mail around 17 June 2006, right? And the cache folder you're talking about is called CachedMessages, right? If that's the case, then what seems to have happened is the following.
For some reason, your mail was deleted from the server (don't ask me why), and Mail deleted the cached copies from your disk as well after synchronizing with the server. BUT, the format used by Mail 2.x to store messages on disk is different from the format used by Mail 1.x. The CachedMessages folder is where Mail 1.x stored cached messages. Mail 2.x uses Messages folders and *.emlx files instead. Mail 2.x leaves the old files used by Mail 1.x there and just ignores them after the conversion. That's why CachedMessages has survived the disaster, whereas Messages hasn't. And that's also why you cannot see the cached messages in Mail now.
The only way I know of to recover those messages is using Emailchemy to convert them to mbox format first, then import them back into Mail doing File > Import Mailboxes and choosing Other as the data format. I haven't tried Emailchemy myself, so I don't know how it works.

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