My mailboxes have disappeared

I opened up my mail only to find that none of my mailboxes exist.
I've lost all my emails from all my email accounts that were stored in my mailbox from the past three years. What can I do?

"Does this mean I have backup?"
No, it means those are the originl files. They are not gone. But your disk and certainly its index has been corrupted by the hard shut down.
So, as i noted in an earlier post, you need to run -- at minimum - disk repairs (via disk utility) on your hard drive. This needs to be doen booting from another drive -- in this case the CD is the easiest i'd guess. Let's see if you get lucky.
Month old backups are helpful against dire emergencies, but would, and maybe will, lose you a month of mail right now.
Its also a reason to ONLY use IMAP mail providers, since IMAP keeps a copy of your mail on the cmpany;s server. e.g.: vfemail, gmail.
You may be very very lucky. Go run the disk utility and report back.
Grant

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I have upgraded recently from Snow Leopard to Lion.
I have lost a lot of software (and had to re-purchase licences and re-install it) but then I have said to myself BE IT! great that I did not lose critical stuff.
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be careful - not to overwrite last back up when you connect your phone, I would find and copy back up file just in case to external drive. You can find location of your actual back up file using that article
http://support.apple.com/kb/HT4946
if you expand where it says "where back ups are stored on the computer"
how to restore from itunes back up here
http://support.apple.com/kb/HT1766
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Google is your friend for that one.
If you don't like my results just adjust search to your liking.
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