How do I backup my emails in Mail Mountain Lion?

Am running an IMAP email from my website webmail (hosted at oneandone.com) to Mail on my iMac and am now running out of space on my webmail and so won't be able to receive any new emails when my space runs out. As the email system is IMAP, if I delete mail from my webmail to free up space, I'll also delete the same emails from my Mail on my iMac.
I want to have a backup of these emails on my iMac so I can refer back to them easily.
If I export the IMAP mailbox before I delete the mail of the webmail, I'll have a backup but it doesn't appear to be easy to browse this backup and find emails for reference.
Is there some way I can create a backup of my emails locally, on my iMac, so that I can then delete them from my webmail and free up space but still be able to access and read these emails easily?
I was thinking about somehow creating a Mailbox on my iMac that is local to my iMac and not connected to the IMAP server at the webmail which I'd call something like "Old Emails up to 10th Dec 2012" where all these IMAP emails are stored and then deleting these emails from the IMAP server, thereby freeing up space. Is this even possible? If so, how do I do this???
Thanks guys!!!

I was thinking about somehow creating a Mailbox on my iMac that is local to my iMac and not connected to the IMAP server at the webmail which I'd call something like "Old Emails up to 10th Dec 2012" where all these IMAP emails are stored and then deleting these emails from the IMAP server, thereby freeing up space. Is this even possible? If so, how do I do this???
Mailbox menu > "New mailbox..."
When you have to choose the lcoation, select "On My Mac".
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