Can I archive years worth of emails but still have them accessible?

I copy the Mail folder from my user library back & forth between my home machine & work machine every day. There are several accounts, and most are POP, so I'd lose Sent emails if I didn't do this. My Mail folder is now over 1.6 GB representing 10 years of email. I feel pretty stupid copying it all twice a day. I'd like to archive most of it. but still have it searchable & accessible. Is there an app for this?

Ernie Stamper wrote:
Yes, I fully understand that function, but that does not provide any backup to something happening on one computer alone that might resync with the IMAP server, and result in loss of messages even on the server. You are correct that it provides some backup to an event on the server, but that is very imperfect, since those messages cached on the hard drive will be lost if connection is established to the server, but the messages are no longer on the server.
I let Time Machine and my other backup system take care of that for me. If something were to happen that wiped out my IMAP account, I would just restore my Mail folder from one of the hourly backups from Time Machine. Or I would make sure I don't check mail from another one of my Macs before I restore from its local cache. I have enough fallbacks to keep a complete loss of the server contents from slowing me down.
Anyway, a complete server failure would not threaten much of my actual mail. 95% of my mail (the older stuff) has been dragged out of the online folders and into one of the offline "On My Mac" folders, so that 95% would not be affected by anything that happens on the server. These local offline folders are easily mirrored into the Mail folders of my other Macs that I can check mail from. Email is too important to only have one working copy of.

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