Transfer maiboxes "on my mac" to a new Mac

Hi all,
Is there an easy way to transfer mailboxes stored under the tab "on my Mac" in Apple Mail to a new Mac?
Thank you
Message was edited by: Pim Versteeg

for further referencen, it was a bit more cumbersome than described;
first of all a straight drag-and-drop to the desktop didn't work;
next; archiving the mailboxes and re-importing them on the new mac made Mail crash over and over again.
lastly what seems to work: connecting your new mac to your old over the network, ask mail on the new machine to import mail boxes from a different copy of Mail, point it to the library/mail/mailboxes directory on your old mac;
imported mailboxes will show up under "on my mac/import"
Matt hanks for the pointers

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