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Well, I downloaded Dropbox and it's not quite as techophobe-friendly as it might be (but then nothing is), but I think it's going to be OK. Unless I froze it asking it to upload too many files at once. Which I might have done. It's not clear
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But. If you can bear to do it, you might go and look at the files you should find under Delia:Library:Mail. When you open that Mail folder, you should find a bunch of folders that have names like POP-youraddress.gmailorwhatever.com. Open one of those folders, in turn, and you should find more folders with the extension .mbox.
Choose an .mbox file for an account that you know has lots of messages in it -- if you're like me and have a lot of stuff in your inbox, the INBOX.mbox folder for any active account will do.
Don't try to open it! If you're using the column view, just highlight it, and the next pane to the right will give you basic information about what's there -- including the size of the file. If it turns out to be a substantial-sized file (that is, measured in mb rather than in kb), you're basically Just Fine. All your mail is still there, and the worst that will happen is that you'll need to do a tedious importing routine* to be able to see everything again.
I'd be surprised if you don't find the mail right there -- really, I'm only suggesting that you look at all because if it *is* there, you at least won't have to worry about that part over the next couple of days.
*It is tedious. But I had to do it when Ellen got her new machine and we had the issues with transferring her data over, so I'm confident about the process, at least.
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