Apple mail 4.5 max. mbox export size

we are attempting to archive a couple of rather large mail folders from within apple mail, they contain in excess of 20000 emails and the actual folders in...
~/Library/Mail/Mailboxes
... are around 14GB in size.
the problem is that if we archive these from within mail, the export only generates mbox files of around 4.2GB which clearly do not contain all emails from the original folder.
is this a known limitation?
and what can we do to get large folders archived... presumably we could simply take the actual mbox folders in ~/Library/Mail/Mailboxes?

Apparently, FluentFactory, the company that produce mBox Mail, aren't very keen on answering e-mails or support tickets. To this day I haven't heard anything from them.
So today I sent them another e-mail, asking for a solution to the problem. I hope they'll reply this time, as this situation is driving me mad. I don't really see a use for a programme that doesn't do what it's supposed to do. Kind of like HP who produce computers that don't compute
I'll let you know, tramac and others interested, if I hear back from FluentFactory.

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