Change where Mail stores my email messages

Mail (Mavericks version) seems to be taking a lot of space on my small SSHD boot drive to store my email messages. I can't find how to change the location to my 2TB HD (which is also internal to my iMac, but not the boot drive).
Can anyone assist?

That article gets around to talking about it half way through, but you can simply move a single folder in your home directory someplace else and make a link (alias) of it in your home directory.
I already do this with my Mail -- i put my actual Mail folder in an encrypted sparse image, then in my ~/Library i link the moved folder "Mail" to where it sits in the encrypted volume.

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i want to change the layout of my email messages so that the message is at the side of the headers not below them. i have just downloaded mozilla thunderbird on to my new laptop at i cant get the layout that I prefer back. please help . thanks june
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hi there, I'm having a bit of an email crisis.
background: I have a MacBook Pro circa 2012 running OS X Yosemite 10.10.2 with over 28 or 29GB of free space.
For email, I have a primary address through Cox Cable and some secondary Cox Cable email accounts for junk mail and the like. Recently, there was some recurring difficulty retrieving the Cox emails. The Mail program would open up and look for the Cox Cable email accounts and variously fail to connect with any of them. The Mail program would tell me that it was unable to access the account and suggest I enter my password.
I decided to delete the accounts and set them up again to see if doing so would grab the most current SMTP settings, etc.. Doing so, I may have accidentally deleted from local storage (on my computer) my old archive of sent and received mail (going back to 2006). More on that later.
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(1) Where does OS X store the Mail email files? I can't find any folder with an xbox file or any other file.
(2) How can I find out if my missing email archive doesn't exist somewhere else on my laptop right now and my Mail program can't find it.
(2) If I well and truly deleted the archive not only from my Mail program but also from my laptop, am I able to import my email archive from my external hard drive where it was backed up? I'd like to leave the archive in an archive folder in Mail so that I can see it and search it when necessary without having to plug in my external drive and also so there are two copies of this email archive.
Any advice you can provide will be very much appreciated.
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ed

hi. update. I found the hidden Library folder where the mbox email files are located as follows:
click on your finder to open it
click the GO command from the drop down menu and before clicking again press and hold down the option key. that reveals in the Go drop-down menu the hidden Library folder. Click on that Library folder to open it.
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click on that and see a sub folder called V2.
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The IMAP protocol resolved the 'unable to access' and 'please enter your password' messages that Mail used to give me under the POP protocol. But left the problem of certain sent mails not being stored immediately in my local sent mail folder on my Mac.
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i generally liked switching from POP to IMAP because my email on my phone and laptop are more apt to be in sync and coordinated, and it resolved the connection/password problems I had with POP. I'd like to keep on IMAP. I have experienced the occasional missing sent mail. So far as I can tell, when sending the email from my laptop, I hear the swoosh of sent mail and the recipients do receive it but a copy if not always delivered into my local sent mail folder. a copy of it is stored on the Cox email server, however.
any workaround that issue? It leaves me wondering sometimes whether the mail was sent or received and I also need a record of all email sent on my laptop for future reference.
is it possible this missing sent mail only happens when there are attachments? it doesn't happen every time. I've noticed it has happened when I've sent emails with attachments.
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ed

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Hello,
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