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Restoring Mail is complex. Luckily, the late James Pond left us an illustrated guide:
You can restore the Mail messages and indexes to the way they were (provided you have a Backup from around that time)
Pondini's Time Machine FAQs: 15m.  Viewing or Restoring Apple Mail

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