IMAP Mail & Archiving

What is the best way to archive older male using Apple mail v2.13?
Aside from the ideas below - if anyone has a better way to archive their mail - please let me know...
- the basic idea is:
1 - get older mail of the IMAP server - which is getting very full
2 - Create some local folders and "move ?" IMAP mail to Local Folders - basically I'm curious about the best way to do this - if I simply drag from an IMAP folder to local one - will that in effect just "COPY to local" or "copy to local and delete from imap" ....?
3 - eventually i can even archive the archive folders - ( if I quit mail app - then move the archive folders out of the master mail directory - then they will not show up in Apple mail - and I can just back them up to CD or what ever...) right?

But, I am curious: what actually happened to the IMAP version of the piece of mail?
Yes, what ever the IMAP folder shows will be immediately reflected on the Server, any file outside the IMAP folder will be invisible to the IMAP Server.
Couple of suggestions...
Do not move a whole IMAP Folder, that removes it from the Server too, the way is to Select All within & move the files to another Folder.
For safety & a backup, First Quit Mail, then I'd backup these two Mail folders, by right clicking on them in the Finder, then choose Archive/Compress.
Users/YourUserName/Library/Mail
Users/YourUserName/Library/Mail Downloads
(Could be a different folder here if you chose such in Mail Prefs)
Right click on that Mail folder, choose archive, you'll get everything in the folder, and the folder itself in a file called Mail.zip, move it to a safe place, same for the Mail Downloads folder... only the plist is separate.
/Users/YourUserName/Library/Preferences/com.apple.mail.plist

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