Reteiving mail app settings from Time Machine backup

shopperca wrote:

I am trying to retrieve only the mail.app settings and smartboxes etc from the backup of my previous Mac to my new Mac

How can one do this?

Thanks

I can say that Mail path in Finder>Go>Go To Folder

Monterey— copy&paste:

~/Library/Mail/V9

Big Sur— copy&paste:

~/Library/Mail/V8