Move mail to new computer

The desktop (w 10.3.9) is going in storage and the laptop (w/ 10.4) is going with us. I'm trying to move the recd mail from the dt to the laptop. One account moved just fine but the other (with most of the recd mail, about 97 mb) will not. The smaller mbox, when moved, created an mbox folder containing a file "mbox" and a seperate folder "messages" but the larger account only creates the file "mbox", leaving the inbox empty. Am I missing a step?
Don

Yeh, I'm missing a step! The little menu item called "import".
Duh.
Don

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