Archiving in Mailboxes from .Mac account

Hi,
I have a large amount of messages sent from my .Mac account, (not using .Mac Mail).
I have recently created a series of mailboxes (stored "On my Mac") in .Mac Mail so I can archive both my incoming and outgoing mails for certain clients and projects without clogging up my .Mac account. But I can't seem to transfer the Sent messages sent in the .Mac account to these mailboxes, as they are not able to be viewed in .Mac in the new version. Any hints anyone?
(I have now started using .Mac Mail for sending mail but have about 300 old Sent emails to archive).
Best wishes!
S
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I access my .Mac account as a .Mac type account with Tiger Mail and I use/access a single .Mac alias address at a time. I have no problems with the alias address being available as an address to choose from via the Accounts selection when composing a message.
Do you access more than one alias address at a time?
Does it make any difference when selecting Edit Email Aliases under the Email Address field available under the Account Information tab for the account preferences?
Since a .Mac account is really an IMAP type account and behaves in the same way, when deleting the account in Mail, no messages available at the server in the account's Inbox or any other server stored messages will be affected when deleting the account and re-creating it as an IMAP type account.
What you do lose when deleting an account in Mail are any locally stored mailboxes/messages for the account such as Drafts, Sent, Trash and Junk if these messages are not stored on the server.
If you don't store Sent messages on the server, before deleting the account you need to do the following:
Create/utilize an "On My Mac" location mailbox which is stored on the hard drive and not associated with any account. Transfer the account's Sent messages from the locally stored Sent mailbox for the account to the user created "On My Mac" location mailbox.
Delete and re-create the account in Mail as an IMAP type account. All server stored messages in the account's Inbox mailbox will be available again in the account's Inbox mailbox and after sending a message with the newly created IMAP account which will create a new Sent mailbox for the account, you can transfer the old sent messages from the "On My Mac" location mailbox to the new Sent mailbox for the account so no messages will be lost.

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