How to recover email?

["Thomas H. George" <lists@tomgeorge.info>]

When a harddrive was failing I managed to copy the contents of 
/home/tom.  This includes a file 
/home/tom/.mozilla/tom/Mail/mail.tomgeorge.info/Inbox containing three 
years of email - mostly junk, but containing a few gems I would like to 
recover.  I reinstalled lenny and iceape and created a new mailbox.  
When I try to import the recovered file the only option is Communicator 
4.x and nothing is imported.

Tom