Transferring mail boxes

Just bought my wife a 2008 Macbook Pro. We have an Imac desktop and both are running the latest version of Snow Leopard. In Mac Mail my wife has several mail boxes under on my mac. How do I transfer the mail boxes from the desktop to the Macbook?

ray1425 wrote:
How do you export the mailboxes as archives?
Right click on the mailbox, chose "Archive mailbox" option, chose appropriate destination eg desktop. A .mbox will be produced for the mailbox. Repeat for all mail boxes. Move them across to the MacBook Pro desktop.
On the MBP chose File/Import mailboxes. Chose the "Files in mbox" option and navigate to the mbox files on your desktop. You will need to repeat for each (not completely sure about this.....you might be able to import more than one at a time)
After importing, the imported mailboxes will probably be in a subfolder called Imports or Imported. You can drag them out here to be at the next level up or whatever you want.

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