Time Machine Email Recovery?! What happen exactly?

Hi and thanks for reading.
I have a question:
let's suppose I need to recover a mail (or a folder) of my iMail Time Machine Backup.
If I enter in TM and select the related message/folder I want to recover and click on the bottom right RECOVER button, am I going to recover it and loose all the other messages/folder structure already present in my iMail software?
In other words, if I recover a 3 months ago backup MSG or FOLDER, do I loose all the mail I got in the last 3 months?
Many thanks,
regards

If I recall correctly from when I restored a mailbox 6 months ago or so, it put the messages into some kind of "Recovered Messages" mailbox. You should be fine. But make sure you've got a good backup of the current messages, just in case something goes wrong.

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