Is it possible to travel with MacMail if I don't have a powerbook?

I have an iMac G5 (OS 10.3.9) and I use Mac Mail (1.3.11) When I travel I access my email via Comcast's Web Mail. At the moment, Comcast only keeps messages back to 12/17/08. I will soon be traveling and while away I will need to refer to many messages going back all the way to a year ago, Jan1, 2008.
I can do that when I'm home because I keep all relevant messages from the past few years. There are several thousand -- not just a few dozen.
But when I travel, I'm out of luck. Because COmcast's saved messages only go back to mid December. (Although they claim that a newly instituted mail program gives you the option to never delete messages, that new option is no help to me bacause it only became effective from around the mid Dec 08 point. So earlier messages are lost.)
So here's the question -- is it possible to take the entire Mac Mail program with me in some form?
At my travel destination there is an iMac G5 that I'll be using -- slightly more modern than mine. It's one of the first Intel versions of the G5.
Is there a way I can either take my entire MacMail program with me (on DVDs? on an auxilliary drive?)?? Or is there a way just to take the 2008 emails with me (approx. 6000 of them) -- both from the sent mail and the inbox mailboxes -- to take them as two folders and then import them into the Mac Mail program at the destination computer?
Please, somebody tell me it's not impossible to do this!

Hi finecut,
I believe this Mac Mail Help info may help:
Backing up your mail
You can back up your mailboxes to a CD or another disk. To do this, you can either copy the Mail folder in your Library folder or create an mbox file, a common format for storing mail messages.
▪ To save the contents of all your mailboxes, hold down the Option key and drag the Mail folder to your desktop or to another disk. The Mail folder is in the Library folder in your home folder (~/Library/Mail).
Copying the Mail folder only backs up mail from POP accounts, or mail from an IMAP account that you've copied to On My Mac. When you are ready to restore the Mail folder, choose File > Import Mailboxes, select Mail for Mac OS X, and locate the Mail folder.
▪ To create an mbox copy of a mailbox, drag the mailbox from the mailbox list to your desktop.
▪ To create an mbox file with just some of your messages, select the messages, then choose File > Save As. In the Format pop-up menu, choose Raw Message Source, then enter a name and save the file.
You can copy mbox files to CDs or to other disks. When you want to restore your mail, choose File > Import Mailboxes, select "Standard mbox files," and locate the files.
hope that helps,
littleshoulders

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