Mail settings and accounts gone

I have mail 3.6 and when I open the mail.app program, it start with a welcome screen. I complete the welcome, quit, restart, then the welcome screen appears again. I found the mail folder in the library and it has all my accounts and emails, but mail does not seem to see it. Any ideas.

Hi drhunter
Any chance you were using Time Machine or another backup software lately to recover files? Or could you make any assumption as to when this started? Did it work properly before? Until when?
Are you being asked to import messages when the welcome dialog appears?
Is there any mail in Mail.app when you clicked through the welcome dialog?
Kind regards
--greg

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