Restoring Accounts in Mountain Lion Mail

Hello all.
I used to have around 18 IMAP accounts and 3 POP accounts in my Mail application. For whatever reason I moved the entire contents of library/mail/v2 to the desktop in order to fix a problem that had caused mail to stop working (a huge email that was saved as a draft and was bringing my mail server down - whoops). My plan was to copy the folder back to the library when mail was fixed and everything would be fine.
Unfortunately I don't have any mail accounts now. I could reconfigure all of the accounts but it would take a while and I am hoping there is an easier way. I have full time machine backups and have been searching for how to restore my missing mail accounts. Many fixes mentioned the com.apple.plist file. In mountain lion in the user library there is only a file called com.apple.plist.lockfile. Restoring this didn't bring back my old mail accounts.
I then found a thread about going to the preferences/mail folder and restoring the com.apple.plist file from there but that didn't work either.
Does anybody have any suggestions as to how to restore my mail accounts via the time machine or any other method?
Cheers

I have solved it. Thank you for pointing me towards that thread. Unfortunately I had already tried this. The result was that mail recovered only one message from that mailbox. Perhaps it's because I selected only one of the messages in time machine?
To anybody else who needs to recover lost accounts and mail in Mountain Lion, this is what I did to get mine back:
Quit Mail
Enable view library by default by pasting this into terminal: chflags nohidden ~/Library/
Navigate to Users/your-user-name/Library/Mail/
Open time machine and go back to the date your mail was working like it should be
Select V2 from the mail folder then click Restore
When asked "do you want to replace" you should go ahead and replace.
Start Mail - You will be greeted with a Welcome to Mail dialogue
Follow the prompts to start importing your missing mailboxes and settings
Optional - Rebuild your database to catch up with any missing mail by selecting your mailboxes then choosing Rebuild from the Mailbox menu
This fixed it for me - Good luck...

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