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Creating a Thunderbird account for viewing local system emails

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I am running Ubuntu 20.04 and Thunderbird 91.11.0 (64-bit). I have 2 gmail accounts set up which both work fine. On my computer I have local mail messages which I currently access through the terminal using the "mail" command line utility. These mail messages are stored in my home directory in a file called mbox: (/home/jpm/mbox) . How can I connect to and display these messages in my version of Thunderbird?

Thanks in advance, Jim

I am running Ubuntu 20.04 and Thunderbird 91.11.0 (64-bit). I have 2 gmail accounts set up which both work fine. On my computer I have local mail messages which I currently access through the terminal using the "mail" command line utility. These mail messages are stored in my home directory in a file called mbox: (/home/jpm/mbox) . How can I connect to and display these messages in my version of Thunderbird? Thanks in advance, Jim