How do I archive email in Mail to an external drive to save disk space?

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My 160 GB hard drive is filling up fast.  I am trying to move files to an external drive to make space.  Running a small business I have been moving emails from my host server to my disk to saves space on the server.  Now I need to move the emails off my hard disk to save space.
I tried draging and dropping emails. This only works one email at a time.  I have about 20,000 emails I need to move.  Any suggestions?

This is not what I am looking for.  I would like to still be able to search the emails after copying them.  By exporting, I would have to import them back into mail to read.
Any other suggestions?

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