Retrieve Lost Mails (Mac Mail 1.3) on OS 10.3.9

Retrieve Lost Mails (Mac Mail 1.3)?
Is there a way to retrieve lost emails in Mac Mail 1.3 on Mac OS 10.3.9. I came from Earthlink and switched to AT&T. I deleted my Earthlink account because it's already cancelled and is generating errors. I set up my AT&T account after that and was able to send and receive emails.
However, I noticed that my old emails in my Earthlink account are no longer there. Those documents are very important. Earthlink no longer has the emails on their server because I configured the email client NOT TO LEAVE MESSAGES on the server.
I would appreciate your help.

Deleting a mail account causes all your mail stored in that account’s mailboxes to be removed from the computer as well, and you you were warned that this would happen by an alert similar to this for Mail 2.x (I don’t know what the exact wording is in Mac OS X 10.3):
Remove Account
Are you sure you want to remove the <AccountType> account "<AccountName>"?
This will permanently delete the account setup information, mailboxes, and messages from your computer. Messages stored on the mail server will not be affected.For IMAP-type accounts, this is not a problem because mail is stored on the server. If you deleted a POP account, however, your mail has certainly been wiped out from the computer, not just moved somewhere.
To prevent that from happening, you should have moved your mail to custom “On My Mac” mailboxes instead of leaving it in the account’s mailboxes. Actually, using the account’s Inbox and Sent mailboxes for archiving purposes is a bad idea regardless — see Overstuffed mailbox is unexpectedly empty.
If the messages are not on the server, and you don’t have a backup (which you should have made before doing something like that), you may use a data recovery tool such as Data Rescue II, TechTool Pro, or FileSalvage to try to salvage as many deleted mbox files as possible in the case of Mail 1.x, and as many deleted *.emlx files as possible in the case of Mail 2.x. Stop using your computer right now if you want to try that, as anything you do with the computer may cause the deleted files to be overwritten.
BTW, if you’re running Mac OS X 10.3 (Panther), it would have been more appropriate to discuss this in the Mail & Address Book - Mac OS X 10.3 & earlier forum.

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