Switching from Mailsmith to Apple Mail app

Ok, I've had a problem recently with Mailsmith, though in general I prefer it to Apple's Mail. I like a text only mail app with everything else as attachments which one can choose to open or not. That said, I recently  messed up: my elderly G4 MDD was slowing down and I got worried that it was on its last legs. In order not to lose recent emails, I opened Mailsmith on my MacBook Pro, something I usually don't do from home but only while travelling, and downloaded available mail from my various accounts. Since then, both on the MBP and on the G4 I have been receiving duplicate emails from my dot mac accounts (main address and alias). This is not occurring on my other (ISP/web hosted) accounts, only on the mac ones. I wrote to the Mailsmith support but got no satisfaction and not much interest. I also posted the issue here but got no responses. At this point I am considering moving my Mailsmith mailboxes - all 31 of them - to Apple Mail and trying to use that as my main mail app. I have converted all the mailboxes to mbox format and succeeded in importing them into Mail, but they show up as "on my Mac" import 4. Is there a way to make them my main mailboxes in the Mail app? I realize I will have to go though each and duplicate the rules/filters so new mail goes to the proper mailbox, but is this possible? How?
Thanks for any useful suggestions.
cheers.
ncm

Ok I'll try that. I imagine I have to recreate each mailbox within Mail and then drag the contents of the old/imported mailboxes to their new equivalents.
Mail is using IMAP for Apple mail and POP for my other accounts. I'm still not comfortable with IMAP as I've only ever used POP so far but I suppose it is useful for viewing and keeping email up to date on different devices and computers...but I do want copies of everything on my Mac. Don't really trust having it all only in the cloud.

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