Mail Personal Mailboxes / folders wont display

Hi
I have recently upgrades from OS 10.4.11 to 10.5.6. After following a couple of discussions and Apple Support guides I have been able to get my Mail to open correctly with the Inbox, Send and Trash all ok, plus I can send and receive e-mail. But my own personal mailboxes and all the personal e-mails I have saved wont display. When I search : Home - Library - Mail - Mailboxes I can see all the mailboxes but what steps do I need to take so they will display in the mail viewer window again as normal mailboxes. I'd appreciate any help as I'm still a bit of a novice. Regards Peter H.

Since the folders are all still there for the various accounts, move those folders to the Desktop, and use Import Mailboxes from Mail´s menus to reimport Apple Mail from those folders. In the future always backup your data as my FAQ explains
http://www.macmaps.com/backup.html
Also note, that IMAP accounts are stored normally on the server, and not on your Mac. Moving from POP to IMAP is dangerous initially if you don´t have the mail folders backed up. If everything you have on IMAP, then the server backups will help you, depending on how frequently your ISP backs up your messages. You can still though then create folders on your machine locally to copy messages you wish to keep.

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I have two areas I am trying to improve in my e-mail.
Synchronization folders - I have 4 e-mail accounts on my system - 1 gmail and 3 others. I am using the GMail app for Gmail (obvious) and the Messaging app for the other 3. One of the "other" accounts is using the Rackspace e-mail service - a fairly vanilla IMAP4 service. One issue I am finding is synching sent mail. Mail I send from my Droid does go through and get delivered but does not show up in the "Sent" or "Sent Items" folders on the Rackspace server. Under a Windows Mobile smartphone I was able to specify the folder into which the phone should put copies of outgoing mail (similar to how it works in Outlook 2007), but I haven;t been able to find an equivalent of that in the settings or controls for Messaging. Any suggestions?
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INBOX
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