[X-Newbies] Replicating Panther Mail into Tiger Mail

[Al Poulin]

Problem:  I use Pop mail and do not invest in Apple's .mac.  I 
understand that Tiger Mail and Panther Mail are not alike.  To use Mail 
from our Panther machine on my Tiger machine, I need to "import."  
Panther runs our main desktop, a QuickSilver G4/733 MHz.  My Tiger box 
is an iBook G4/1.33  GHz.  I use the iBook as one of my backup places 
for the desktop's Users Folder.  The iBook "imported" mail once at 
setup time, and since then I've allowed the Inbox to load up with 5,500 
messages.  On occasion, I need to update Mail on the Tiger iBook to 
match the Panther desktop.  Panther Mail uses two accounts and has two 
layers of subfolders to the main's user folders.

Please tell me if I found a good plan.
(1)  Copy the Mail Folder from Panther's User's Home>Library, about 708 
MB, to the Tiger's desktop.
(2)  Remove Mail Folder from Tiger's User's Home>Library and put in a 
safe place.
(3)  Remove com.apple.mail.plist from Tiger's User's 
Home>Library>Preferences and put in a safe place.
(4)  Launch Tiger's Mail.  Hopefully, I'll see the "Welcome to Mail" 
window and proceed to allow it to "Import."

Did I miss anything?  My clue to doing this is that in a user account 
on the Tiger machine where nothing has been launched, there is no Mail 
folder in Home>Library, and there is no com.apple.mail.plist.  In the 
Admin account, where there is no mail content, but where I launched 
Mail, getting the "Welcome..." window but going no further, there is a 
Home>Library>Mail Folder with only two items: MessageRules.plist and 
its backup.

Thanks for a sanity check,
Al Poulin