Open an old mail account from a new mac

My late lamented MacBook Pro suffered Death By Coffee. Fortunately the primary HD was undamaged, so I had a tech put it in a USB enclosure and now I can boot up "my computer" from any mac later than something like 2009.
This has however become tedious. Turns out, the only two things I still do on "my computer" that involve actually running software there, are itunes and mail. With itunes I can launch the app, hold down the option key and select my old itunes library...and off I go. There doesn't appear to be any similar capability for mail however.
Am I missing this, or is it not currently possible?
Thanks!
-cg
Chris Granner

If at all possible avoid having more than one Store account.  You cannot transfer purchases between accounts and having maintain two accounts is a comp[licated mess.
The best way to get music on the computer is to copy it from the old computer by copying the whole iTunes folder to the new computer, start iTunes with the option key held down and guide it to the transferred library.
Purchases will transfer from an iPod to a computer but not items you did not purchase from Apple.  If you absolutely must do it that way you will have to buy third party commercial software.

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