User's mail has disappeared

Looking for some sage advice here.
We were getting some error messages when administering user accounts via Server Admin on our mail server so I decided to change the mail server into a Open Directory master and migrate the accounts over to that.
Did an export of the user accounts, reset all the passwords and everything looked ok. When I went to log into my mail account after a restart, all the mail disappeared and I was unable to get it to reload.
I ran mailbfr -o but that didn't change anything
Wondering what I did wrong...Any help would be appreciated.
thanks
Macbook Mac OS X (10.4.8)
Macbook Mac OS X (10.4.8)

Needless to say I didn't provide enough useful information in my post for anyone to be of any help. My bad all around.
The issue was resolved by restoring everything via mailbfr.

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