Mail does not accept that the Mail folder is on an external drive

On Snow Leopard and on Lion, I have moved the Mail folder (from the Library) to another location (on an external drive) which happen to also be my Dropbox folder. In these two OS, it worked well so my Mail folder is portable and also online. I have used aliases that lead Mail from my Library folder to the Mail folder on my external drive.
On my new MacBook Pro preconfigured with Mountain Lion, Mail, as soon as I launch it, tells me that it can not use the Mail folder located on my external volume because it has not Read&Write permissions.
OK but my Mail folder, inclusing all enclosed folders, have the right Read&Write permissions.
I have read here and there that there are many issues with Mail on Mountain Lion so I was also wondering if there are no solutions if I can install Lion on this brand new MacBook Pro or did Apple did again something stupid to prevent us to do so.
Any solution on my Mountain Lion problem would be appreciated.
Thank you for your support

I have found this solution: http://thenerdnest.com/2012/08/how-to-move-apples-mail-folder-to-an-external-dri ve.html
and it seems that my problem is now solved!

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