Move Mailbox from one Mac to another?

Hello All --
I had a problem on my iMac and had to erase the disk and restore it using a Time Capsule backup. That worked great, except I found I am missing a few importat mailboxes in Mail.
I have a MacBook Pro that, fortunately, has the missing mailboxes and emails. How do I move a few individual mailboxes and their email contents from my MacBook Pro to my iMac?
Thanks in advance.

Select the folder you want to export.
Under Mailbox in the Menu bar, select Export.
Put the files on an external drive or use a service like DropBox or OneDrive to copy the files to the computer with the missing data.
Under File in the Menu bar when Mail is active, select Import Mailboxes...

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Thanks! Seems to have worked.
Once I imported tham, I had to fiddle around renaming mailboxes and "moving" the emails to the desired locations, but that only took a minute. So overall, seems like that's the solution! I only wish that the steps to do this were made clearer by Apple in the Mail "help" menu -- where I couldn't find any mention of how to do this.
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In case anyone reads this in the future, let me add in the missing steps, to make it perfectly clear:
In Mail, choose 'archive mailbox' from the mailbox menu.
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