Where are mail boxes

Where do I find mail boxes and messages. I am trying to transfer data from an old iMac G4 to a new iMac. I've had lots of trouble and posted several messages here and in other forums. I think the only thing left to do is find my mail from the old Mac and put it on the new Mac. I tried importing from a folder called "mail" and got many of my old messages but in a confused state. There's white folders and blue folders resembling but not identical to my folder configuration in Mail. (the folders came through in the transfer but not the messages.)
Geoff

Sorry about being so vague. I'm dealing with 2 computers, not 2 sets of files within one computer.
Mac 1 is a iMac G4 that has been replaced by Mac 2, a recently purchase iMac.
When I first tried transferring data I attempted to do it from a TimeMachine backup on an external hard disk. I did not have a fire wire cable to connect the two macs and the sales person told me to use time machine from the external disk. That hard disk was partitioned with one partition for TimeMachine and one that I used for CCC cloning. I followed the migration assistant but the new Mac did not see the Time Machine partition, only the cloned partition. It saw it as another computer. I transferred data from that. All went well, until I realized I had not updated the clone; the clone was about 3 weeks old; I didn't have recent data.
Then I learned I also transferred some problems into the new Mac which I'll not reiterate here. Trying to make a long story short, I've posted several times on these forums and spent several hours on the phone with Mac support and updated/re-transferred data several times.
At some point I lost a week's worth of recent email. Now I have 2 weeks worth of recent email on the new Mac, all the folders/mailboxes I had in the old Mac but they are empty. All the old (pre 3 weeks ago) email is still in the old Mac.
I've tried importing the mail folder from the clone. Now I have a pale (as compared to the other baby blue folders) folder in my mailbox sidebar labeled "Import" that has a confusing mess of my old mail. I think all the old mail is there but I don't know how to get it into the "proper" folders. ie the folders it was in on the old Mac.
The end result is I have been using both computers. Too look up email from the past I use the old computer.
I guess I should have paid the $100 to have the Mac sales people transfer the data.
Geoff

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