Archiving mail on external drive

Hi,
I have an imac (2012). On this moment i have for more than 3GB of mail. I have an external harddisk drive where i want to archive my macmail.
Is this possible and how do it?
Thanks in advance.

hi,the external drive is not connected with my imac but with the network pc.
i have a PC on Windows :( where the external drive is connected on.
the pc is needed for some programs that only run on windows, i didn't want microsoft on my mac.
so the ti with tie machine doesn't work here, wat now?

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sorry, you are quite right! It IS possible by using symbolic links! I should have thought of that right away.
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http://support.apple.com/kb/HT1661
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How can I "archive" mails in Mail App to another internal drive/partition to save space but still have it searchable in spotlight (and preferably visible, searchable, draggable in Mail App)?
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I also thought I should download future photos to my Canon programming that comes with EOS cameras and edit and then decide which photos to save to iPhoto library and which to save only to my archival HD?
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You're somewhat confused and you need to
1. Decide what exactly you want to do
2. Then go about it.
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