Received mail not showing up in folder

A while back I reformatted my drive. I backed up all my data to an external drive. Then copied it back afterward. Everything went fine except my old received mail doesn't show in my Received folder. I can find the old mail and open it up and read it, how do I get it to populate in my Mail application?
Thanks

try rebuilding the mailbox file, if you haven't already done so.
in the mailbox pane, selecte the mailbox you want to rebuild in the list of email boxes (e.g inbox, etc.).
then select the last menu item "rebuild" in the mailbox menu with the mailbox still selected.
i believe that you can use rebuild only when a single mailbox is selected, and not multiple mailboxes...
each mailbox has a "info.plist" file, which i believe is an index of the messages with the metadata from the messages... if you look in ~/Library/Mail/Mailboxes, you can see these files and the individual messages... i believe that "rebuild" will make the mail program scan the message files and rebuild the plist file...
at least technique this has worked for me...
good luck-
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