Moving folders in mac mail from old to new pro....

I have many folders with many emails in my current macbook. I want to upgrade to a new macbook pro and i want to know if there is a way that i can do a mac mail transfer of all my folders and all the content in them? please advise what is the best way to do this?

Just use the migration assistant.

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I followed instructions about moving Mail--with all mail folders and old emails intact--from my old PowerPC iMac to my new Intel 3.20 MHz iMac. I copied the folder "Mail" inside my user library and the "plist" file from Preferences onto my thumb drive from the old computer, then uploaded these files onto the new one. I was able to easily replace the "plist" file with the onscreen prompt (Do you want to replace?), but the Mail folder went into the Library folder as a duplicate only. So, I tried to delete the original and unused Mail folder, but everytime I sent to the trash and empty the trash, it magically reappears, so that my old emails don't show up when I open the Mail program. I know the files are there--but how do I make my new iMac recognize them and how do I delete the empty Mail folder that was on the new computer originally to avoid confusion? Thanks for any advice you can give.

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Philip,
The available options have pretty well been laid out for you, and there aren't any others that come to mind. The mailboxes that most versions of Netscape email created are readable by Thunderbird, because the Mozilla project and Netscape have many common origins. Mail could probably import the old mailboxes as type Netscape/Mozilla, but first you must figure out a way to transfer the data. You need to go to other forums in these Apple Discussions for older systems and older hardware to find out what you can use to connect either an external hard or or external CD burner to the old G3, or to see if you can connect via Firewire, or if you can network between your new Mac and the old G3.
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Thanks for that babowa. If I add my Yahoo account it just goes straight to MacMail and says I already have an account. There seems to be no basic problem with mails going between Macmail and Yahoo. It is just the folders that have disappeared, while MacMail was out of action. I don't think those particular folders were ever on the Yahoo mail that I access through BT, they were just on the MacMail under "Yahoo" as opposed to "On my Mac". I am worried in case I lose what I already have if I press "Restore" from my back up. As you can see, I am not exactly good at this!

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https://discussions.apple.com/docs/DOC-2295
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http://support.apple.com/kb/HT4413?viewlocale=en_US
http://support.apple.com/kb/TS1963
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For quite a few years I have been using Apple Mail to access my .mac email. As of last Friday, Mail stopped working. Nothing has changed (accept for the installation of the latest OS X security upgrade - SecUpd2006-008Univ.pkg).
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