Problems importing old email

Mail crashed on my old macbook pro. I now have a new Macbook Pro and Mail does not recognize old email files as "valid mboxes". In addition, I can't search for the files using spotlight - it doesn't seem to recognized them either. If I open the individual messages, they open in Mail and then Spotlight "sees" them. How do I import these mboxes into Mail?

Hi
When you do the File - Import from Mail, make sure the folder you choose is the parent of the mailbox files - don't select the files themselves. It should then display the contents of that parent folder, which will be your mailboxes.
Matt

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