Re-importing messages saved as raw message source

I made a back up copy of several messages by selecting them in the message viewer window and then File / Save As / Raw Message Source.
This resulted in a single file more or less the size of the sum of the messsages backed up, incl attachments, with no extension (inspite of the fact that I opted not to hide the extension).
I now want to get the messages back into Mail, but whatever I do Mail does not seem to want to do anything with the file it made....
Any ideas? or have I gone wrong somewhere....
jw
Mail 2.1
OS 10.4.10
  Mac OS X (10.4.10)  

Messages saved that way are stored in standard mbox format. Hence, to bring them back into Mail you must do File > Import Mailboxes and choose Other as the data format. Standard mbox files don’t require a filename extension in order for Mail to be able to import them.

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