Transfer Mail in 10.5 to Computer with 10.4

I'm going on a trip, and want to transfer all my Apple Mail settings, behavior, mailboxes, messages, etc. from my iMac running 10.5.7 to my old iBook G4 running 10.4.11.
If someone can help, please send pretty specific step by step directions.....I going nuts trying!!!! Thank you.

You can try but it may not work because of differences in the datafiles used in Leopard. If you use an IMAP mail account and the files are on the server, then you have full access on either computer. Otherwise you will have to copy the data from one computer to the other. That means anything contained on the iBook would be removed and replaced by whatever is on the iMac. I suggest you make a backup of the information on your iBook in case this doesn't work. The files you need are:
/Home/Library/Mail/ folder - the entire folder
/Home/Library/Preferences/com.apple.mail.plist
Copy them to the same locations on your iBook.

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Transfer Mail in 10.5 to Computer with 10.4

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