How do I archive my mailboxes?

I have many mailboxes with mail saved in them. How can I archive them, and start over? I don't want to delete them.

Hi aouehgeoug,
Thanks for visiting Apple Support Communities.
In Mail, you can create a mailbox and choose "on my Mac" as the location. This will allow you to store email messages on your computer instead of the mail server.
Here are the steps to create a mailbox:
You can create mailboxes to organize messages. For example, if you receive messages from friends in a book club, you could create a mailbox to store all the messages related to the book club. You could organize your messages further by creating another mailbox inside the book club mailbox for each author you read.
Choose Mailbox > New Mailbox.
Use the Location pop-up menu to choose whether to store the new mailbox on your Mac or on a mail server.
Type a name for the mailbox, and then click OK.
From:
Mail (Mountain Lion): Create mailboxes
http://support.apple.com/kb/PH11740
Note that the steps apply to Mavericks as well.
All the best,
Jeremy

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