How to archive my email to my local mac

Hi All,
my email keeps freezing and I thought its better to archive it locally and rebuild it again , any idea how to do it ?
thanks
Fuad

Hi Grant,
as per your advice below :
The files used by recent versions of Mail are at this location:
~/Library/Mail/V2
tilde (~) is a symbolic reference (that the system understands) to the current User
The conventional wisdom was to
quit Mail
delete "envelope index" and similar names
launch Mail and it would rebuild the indexes over the next few minutes (quite a few minutes if you have many stored messages)
NB>> do not do this when you need to use Mail immediately, as Mail will be very busy for a while. Use Webmail to pick up messages you need immediately.
Im worry about losing y old saved emails, would this action keep my old emails even if its been deleted for the server ?
Fuad

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