Recovering deleted mail

I have an iBook 64 10.4.11. I use the mail feature for my gmail account. I recently realized that when I delete my mail it doesn't just delete, it goes somewhere in my computer, I found this out by using spotlight and searching for things, because it would show messages from up to a year ago. I was wondering if there was a folder that just had every email I have ever had since I opened the mail feature, and how would I find it? I am trying to find an email from the beginning of this year and I don't know how to do it. Thanks! (sorry if I explained this poorly, this is the second time I have posted on here)

I deleted an account name by mistake and lost all the mail. I recovered it with Data Rescue after following another threads instructions, but....
I have a list of files called mail1.mbox, mail2.mbox etc that I can open in Text and see the raw messages, but can't seem to import them into mail. Importing Mail for Mac OSX creates a blue Import folder on the side bar with nothing in it.
Can anyone help?

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