Is there any way to have Mail.app's data live on a different volume?

Simple one:
have a Macbook with a 80GB SSD and a 500GB HDD, i have 4GB of email, id love to be able to redirect mail.app to save the live synced gmail data to the 500GB drive, and not fill my precious SSD
is this possible without too much fuss?
(like with Outlook on a PC i can manage the data file and have it live wherever i want.
thank you

How much fuss is too much?
You can easily change your home directory to the other drive. That would certainly take care of it. Copy your home directory to the other volume. Then, in System Preferences > Users & Accounts, select your account, right/command click and choose Advanced. Change your home directory. Log out and back in.
You could also try to hack around with symbolic links, but that is more fuss.

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