Mail recovery in snow leopard from mountain lion

hi,
i've just reinstalled my old snow leopard onto my mabook pro (2010).
but unfortunately my mail exports didn't include all my mails.
so now i would like to transfer my mails from my mountain lion backup (which i have on a external hdd) onto my snow leopard mail.
is that possible? i would like to skip the steps that i backup my snow leopard, recover my mountain lion from backup, copy the mails and reload my current snow leopard. i tried the migration service and directly copying the mail files ( the folder and the .plist file from the preferences, which had a unusual suffix attached to it so eventually it didn't work) but none of those steps worked out, maybe i did something wrong?
any suggestions? would really appreciate it!

Ok, i figured it out now. Here the solution:
-close mail
-allow finder to show hidden files -> google if you don't know how to do that.
-open up your time machine hdd and select the latest( or the one you want to recover) date folder. with your privat folder in it
-navigate to users/(your name)/library/mail and copy that folder onto your hard drive.
-open up your current user library folder and navigate to the same "mail" folder.
-from the importet folder "Mail", select the inboxes(they have your emailadress on it) you want to import. Navigate in that .mbox file to the subfolder "Messages", here you can see all your messages with the suffix .emlx, leave that finder window open
-on your current mail folder there is a subfolder called "Mailboxes" create a .mbox file there (just add a new folder and rename it to (name it as you want).mbox)  
-create a subfolder in that just created .mbox file named "Messages" now copy all messages you want to import into that folder from your already opened imported mail folder.
after your done moving the files open your mail programm and click "import inbox" now just choose your created .mbox file, in which you copied all your mails and hit import. the mails will now be imported to Apple Mail.
and your done.

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