Transferring old Mail messages from external HD

Hello
I am trying to find the emails I (think I) stored on my external HD.
Can anyone please tell me where on the external HD I would find the actual messages (i.e. NOT the application)? Also, what would they be called? Please be as explicit as you can as I'm not very clever.

Well, this should put your question back on the first page!
Frankly I am mystified too, and demystifying you may be beyond my abilities.
But here goes anyway. There really are only two possibilities:
1. The clone you made, for unknown reasons, was not a perfect clone, and the emails never made it to the second drive.
2. The emails are there, but the searches you have done have missed them.
If 1. there is nothing that can be done.
If 2. you could try booting from the external and running Mail right off that drive.
If this process finds the lost mail, you can save it all to your original boot drive, and restart from there.

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