Mailbox full of unreadable messages and more fun

recently did a reinstall (after backing everything up to an external drive) only to find after reimporting all my mail settings i find my mailboxes full (expected this) but the following message attached to each message
*The message from ** concerning *** has not been downloaded from the server. You need to take this account online in order to download it.*
the account is online. i have 4k of messages i'd like to save and find i can't now.
here's the other problem: as stated before the mail accounts have been set up as before the reinstall, only now they're not receiving email nor are they sending.
any ideas out there?

never mind. fixed it by booting from the external, making sure mail behaved, and then deleting the plist, cache and mail folder in the library. replaced all items from the bootable drive.

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