Restoring deleted Mail account

Hi
I have inadvertently deleted a POP 3 mail account on my Mac. I have located the folders for this including inbox.mbox but how do I restore this?
Many thanks
Ken

I don’t know what you did, but if the account folder is still there, then either you didn’t delete the account, or you’ve set it up again.
Anyway, because of the differences between Mail 1.x and Mail 2.x, if you’re using Mac OS X 10.3 (Panther), as your profile indicates, further discussing your problem here might confuse other users with similar problems running Mac OS X 10.4 (Tiger), so please start a new topic in the Mail & Address Book - Mac OS X 10.3 & earlier forum. I or someone else will be able to better help you there.
At any rate, I encourage you to choose a more appropriate alias to post here. In order to name you at the beginning of my reply, I would have had to start it saying “What the...”, which would have been clearly inappropriate and confusing for other users. Actually, I would have ignored your post altogether just because of that if it wasn’t because your post was entirely correct (except for the fact that it was posted in the wrong forum).

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