Re-import IMAP messages to Mail

I am trying to get messages from a local backup of my imap-account to show up in Mail and to get uploaded to the mail server.
When I copy the emlx-files to the mailbox folder, the messages do not show up in Mail.
I also tried setting up a dummy account and copy the emlx-files to this account's folder – same result.
Mail's import command does not recognise the emlx-files as Mail files.
How do I get my backed up messages back into Mail?
Kind regards.

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