Possible to move mail folder in 10.4.6?

Hi there,
I'm back after a while of neither reading or posting...
I have the following question and couldn't find an answer by searching either archives or the net... (maybe I didn't find the right phrase...)
I'm on an upgraded Lombard PB (G4, 433, 512 MB RAM, 40GB HD, 5400 rpm) and am pretty happy with the performance... Tiger is installed on a partition of 8 GB. Now with all my mails and other stuff the space on that partition is getting sparse...
I used Macaroni to delete localized files and am thinking if I could put the mail storage folder on to an other partition that would give me some more space... is that possible?
Any other ideas?
Thanks,
Dirk.
Lombard 400mhz, 10.3.3, 512MB RAM, 40GB HD, Wifi

Quit Mail and drag the entire Mail folder in your home folder to the external partition. Next, rename the Mail folder in the Finder and open the Terminal in the /Applications/Utilities/ folder. Enter the following:
ln -s
followed by a space. Drag the Mail folder from the external partition onto the Terminal window, and then add another space and the following to the command:
~/Library/Mail
When the command is complete, it will be something like:
ln -s /Volumes/volumename/path/Mail ~/Library/Mail
At this point, press Enter to complete the procedure; nothing will appear in the Terminal window if the command succeeds. The l in the command is a lowercase L. Reopen Mail and verify that everything works as it did before; if there aren't any problems for a couple of days, it is safe to delete the Mail folder on the main partition. This method can be modified to move your whole home folder; in this case, you may need to enter the actual path of the folder as the last part of the command instead of using ~.
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