Upload old sent messages

I have a very old powerbook with some sent messages I would like to transfer to my iMac running 10.8.3. The OS on the PowerBook is 10.5.8. The Powerbook connects perfectly well to my wi-fi system based in my Time Capsule. The account that the old Powerbook used looks like a POP account I had a long time ago. What do I have to do to transfer these old sent messages to my iMac? Can I use iCloud somehow? I had data transferred when I bought the iMac at the Apple Store. I don't know why these didn't transfer over. If I open up "Accounts" there is an iCloud IMAP listed. Since both the iMac and the PowerBook are both connected to the same network can I use that to transfer the data? The mail in iCloud on the web and in my iMac shows up in the inbox and sent mail of my PowerBook in the main section. The sent mail I am interested in is the part that is stored under "On My Mac."
Thank you
Carl

Never mind, I figured it out for myself.
I contacted earthlink and they were useless, as usual. They do not support IMAP and they insisted it was "impossible" to export messages from the sent box or archive them in any way. When I pushed back on that, they told me one way would be to go into each message and forward it to myself (thus having it appear in my inbox.) With thousands of messages, that was not going to happen.
So I poked around and realized that right on the menu is an option to move messages from one box to another. I mass selected all the messages in my sent box and moved them to my inbox, and they all came down to my Mac. Easy as could be.
The messages are now co-mingled all in the inbox, (but still in order by date) but that's okay, because I just need to archive them.
FYI for anyone else having this problem, I am switching to gmail, and I also found out that gmail has an option for pulling all your old messages into their mail service, with many common email providers supported. Whether this pulls in the sent messages or just the inbox, I don't know. But gmail supports IMAP, so if you can get them over there, you should then be able to get them down to your Mac/PC. So that could be another option.

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I contacted earthlink and they were useless, as usual. They do not support IMAP and they insisted it was "impossible" to export messages from the sent box or archive them in any way. When I pushed back on that, they told me one way would be to go into each message and forward it to myself (thus having it appear in my inbox.) With thousands of messages, that was not going to happen.
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