How do I open old mail files held locally within my Thunderbird profile

I have several old mail files that are in the imap subfolder of my default Thunderbird profile held in Appdata/roaming/thunderbird.
The mail accounts are no longer active on the net but I now need to see an old email from several years ago and I can't work out how to get it back in to Thunderbird so that I can read it.

Whoopee it worked - It's mixed all the folders up with my existing folders in TB, but that's being picky - I can sort that out. Chs!

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TJBUSMC1973 wrote:
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Why is that such an issue for you?
Why do people insist on replying to threads without even reading the original post? I explained it there already!
I don't have to use iTunes to save an image from Mail into my camera roll, or to save a PDF from Mail into iBooks. Why should I have to use iTunes to save a music file into Music app?
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