Migrate Mail from one account to another

Hi People,
I was wondering how I can migrate all my mail data from one user to another.
I want to consolidate two users into one (the user to which i want to migrate to, does not have mail set up) then delete the old user account.
Is there a process for this? Or is it a case of just copying the mail data folder between users?
Thanks.

quit mail on both accounts and copy the file /users/username1/library/preferences/com.apple.mail.plist and the entire folder /users/username1/library/mail to the corresponding locations for user2. start Mail on user2 and it will look like it did on user1.

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