Move to a new mac

I retored my user account form a time machine backup to a new macbook with Mountain Lion. All of my mailboxes previously on the 'On My Mac' list got transfered with only the mailbox name. All the mailboxes showed 0 messages... Any advise? I can try to import them and move them back, but this seems a bit overkill... Did I miss anything?

I just moved from a Powerbook to Macbook and iBackup was essential.
http://www.grapefruit.ch/iBackup/
Backs up all parts of your user folder, mail, ical, ichat settings, music folder (including itunes library files and music if you keep it there) as well as your library folder (useful for application support folders say for Firefox and its saved passwords) all of which you can use on the intel machine.
You can then restore them to the new machine. Personally I did this by hand, as you're not going to need your entire user library on the new machine, just things I mentioned above.
Once I'd restored these to the new machine, all except system settings were as before.
You can also backup the old applications you have if you really want to, or open the system profiler on your eMac and open 'applications' and the list will tell you what's universal and what's PPC. You can cut and paste this to keep as a list and later just transfer the universal apps if you want to do without rosetta on your Intel machine (you can use ibackup to backup your applications folder).
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