From Location do I Recover Mails?

[Kralle]

Dear users.

I have recently formatted my MacBook Pro and upgraded to Snow Leopard, but sadly I forgot to backup my mails. Since I chose to let Mail (standard mail client) to download my inbox from Hotmail, it's not possible for me to retrieve the mails via my browser or anything. Therefore I invested in a program called Stellar Phoenix, and I can see there is a good chance for me to recover the lost files. My question is: Which files from which location should I recover to make it work again?
~/Library/Application Support/Mail?
~/Applications/Mail.app?

And if anyone would happen to know how I'm supposed to import the recovered files into my reformatted Mail.app, I'd be grateful.

I hope you'll be able to help me. Thanks in advance,
Kralle

 

[BlueRevolution]

I'm not on a Mac at the moment so I can't check, but I believe mail messages are stored in ~/Library/Mail. They definitely wouldn't be in /Applications/Mail.app.

 

[miles01110]

~/Library/Mail

It's this one.

 

[BlueRevolution]

 

[Kralle]

Haha, what a quick reply.

So do you suggest that I recover both directories? If so, do you know how to add the mails in my "new" Mail.app?

EDIT.
Jesus Christ you guys are quick!

I'll just recover ~/Library/Mail then. Thanks a lot.

 

[JediMeister]

I can confirm that POP email accounts whose messages are saved locally are found in ~/Library/Mail. The account folder should be pretty identifiable, with a name resembling POP-<username>@<incoming server name>. Any recovered mailboxes will have a .mbox file extension which can be imported back into Mail.

 

[BlueRevolution]

Any recovered mailboxes will have a .mbox file extension which can be imported back into Mail.

True, although if you just copy the files into ~/Library/Mail on your new computer you shouldn't need to do this.

 

[Kralle]

Brilliant! I'll get back to you later if it doesn't work.

Thanks a bunch - you're gods amongst men.