Transferrng email from computer to computer w/o .mac acct?

Hi Folks
I'm an infrequent visitor but glad you're here.
I just bought a new iMac and I want to transfer the mailboxes and email from my laptop. It appears that the only way one can do this is by having a .Mac acct. Am I wrong about this? If so, could someone explain how to go about it? I was able to get my address book info over, but I've had no success with email so far.
Thanks!

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If you can setup an IMAP account somewhere, you can simply drag the contents your mailboxes into your IMAP stored folders and then import them into your Mail application. Just be sure not to delete any local mail folders in the process until you are sure you have moved everything to your local folder on your Mac and backed that up.
IMAP lets you store a number of folders dictated by the internet service provider on the server, thus letting you use basically any mail server as your transfer medium.
If you have mail in a specific application Mac OS X Mail supports importing from, then you just have to find the data files for that mail application and move those over, or network the Mac to that mail folder so it can import them. What is your old mail application format?

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