Mail missing after Rebuild

Hi All,
Having problem with the Mail.app
All my mails were missing after I ran the rebuild function.
I think the old mails were somehow hidden from the inbox as i noticed the the size of inbox.mbox is 1.22GB, whereas the latest INBOX is only 240mb.
How do I bring back all my old mails?
Mail.app v 1.3.11
OS 10.3.9
Many thanks.
Cheers

Hi mercuryfin.
I'm sorry you've been left out in the cold. For some reason your post has gone by unnoticed, maybe because there are many threads discussing problems similar to the one you're having. Read the following article (and the articles it links to) to better understand the problem and how to fix it:
http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?threadID=121837
Unfortunately, one of the side effects of trying to fix your problem as suggested in the article is that a lot of previously "deleted" messages may reappear and you'll have to delete them again. If you wish, we can try a slight variation of the procedure described there to see whether that side effect could be avoided -- I haven't tried it before, but it won't cause any data loss, at worst it'll just not work and we'll have to do what the article suggests.
Let me know if you need any clarifications or want to try the alternative approach I'm suggesting. If the latter, start by quitting Mail and, in the Finder, go to HOME/Library/Mail/. Locate the folder of the account that contains the largest Inbox -- its name starts with the account type (POP, IMAP, Mac), followed by the account username and the incoming mail server. Open the account folder, locate the file INBOX.mbox, right-click or ctrl-click on it and choose Show Package Contents. Now, choose Edit > Select All (⌘A), then Edit > Copy (⌘C) and paste it in your reply to this post so that I can see which items are within that mailbox. Tell me also the size of the mbox file that appears there.

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