How to move Mail to another drive

Hi all,
mid 2011 MacMini, OS 10.8.5, 16GB RAM
My applications and OS are on an SSD, and I have another internal drive for documents/data.
Because speed is not an issue with mail, I would like to move the Mail folder onto another drive.
I have moved the Mail folder from Users/<me>/Library to the other drive, made an Alias and moved the Alias into place on the SSD.
When I try to run Mail, I get an error message, stating that I do not have access priveleges on the other drive. I have checked the access priveleges, insured that all are "Everybody: read and write" but still get the error message.
Thanks

Thanks Eric, but that alone didn't seem to work.
I also tried changing the access on the source folder before making the alias, but it didn't make a difference.
Using SymLink, I have got it to work, but only after several false starts. Just going folder to folder, SymLink would crash, but eventually I could get it to work by creating a folder in a folder, then dragging the link one level higher to the User/<me>/Library folder
Anyway, got there in the end after struggling with it for a day.
cheers, and thanks!

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