Moving mail to new mac

I used migration assistant to move files to new mac. Most moved just fine. Mail appears to have moved, but there are no mailboxes showing and the mail app is empty of any mail.
Support suggested I repair the keychain, copy mail, and copy preferences. All seemed straight forward, except the com.apple.mail.plist.lockfile had zero bytes. There was no com.apple.mail.plist , just the one with the .lockfile extension and no contents.
Is there any way I can unlock and rebuild that file or otherwise recover my mail on the new mac?
help

There is a way to do this manually by digging for the mbox files in your ~/Library/Mail/* folders, copying them to your new machine, and importing the data into mail.
Unless you've done something like this before, you may want to wait for someone with a less technical solution before trying my option. But you should know that it's possible, even if it's not easy.
If you want to give it a shot, let me know and I'll write up some steps to follow. Be forewarned, though, that it will require commands in terminal...

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