Recovering mails

I have tried to recover my mails from back-up on timecapsule.
After putting mails back, I can only see the titles but not the content.
Can anybody help?

Dizzy351 wrote:
Dear JJG,
Thanks for your quick answer and indeed I did something wrong.
I copied the whole "mail" folder. Now I can not go back anymore in time because I erased accidently my back-up on time capsule.
Oops.
Though I see all of my mails but not the content. Is there any possibility to recover them? Maybe the link to my mails is not right?
In Mail, do you see the correct mailboxes in the sidebar? If so, select one, then from the Mail Menubar select +Mailbox > rebuild.+ Repeat for each one.

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