How to make backups of iCloud mail folders

I have a few iCloud Mail folders with saved emails moved from my Inbox and I would like to make a backup of the their content to either my Mac's HD or an esternal drive.  I  make regular backups of my iCloud Address Book (which I found very helpful when I lost all my contacts when setting up iCloud) and I use Time Machine for the documents I have in the Mac, and now I want to backup the mail folders but cannot figure out how to do it.
Can someone help me, please?

If you are using Time Machine, it should take care of backing up your email.
However, if you want to backup outside of Time Machine there are a couple of ways to go about it. The simplest, butprobably most time-consuming method, is to simply drag each email one by one to a folder on your desktop.
Another method you could use, is to navigate to the mail folder in your library and copy it. You can access your library folder by clicking on the go menu in the Finder, holding down the option key on your keyboard, and selecting library from the list when it appears

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