Mail file architecture configurable?

Hello,
Is it possible to configure Mail to store the message file in a way that each message would be a file?
As I understand it, each time I download a mail from the server, it updates its corresponding mbox file. Being updated, the mbox file will be flaged for backup. And when my five email accounts at the office weight an average of 150 MB after 20 months of work, the backup of my emails only adds quite some weight to the backup file.
Well, yes, I like to keep all my emails to refer to them later when needed. And with spotlight, it's a breeze to find one specific email even after many months.
So, if the emails were saved each in a separate file, only the new emails would be eventually saved to the backup.
Also, I could edit the emails received to remove attachments easily (to save space again).
And more! I could store the emails in a certain shared location, different people of the same department could read the emails sent to the department email account (say, Emy's and my Mail app could read the same marketing email files)...
Well, I guess it's not possible now to configure Mail to use that kind of file architecture. But do you think it would be hard to implement?
Looking forward to read your comments...
Frederic
(and if you like the idea, don't forget to suggest it in Apple feedback form)

Frederic,
ever since 10.4, Mail does not use the mbox file any longer - messages are stored in individual files named ####.emlx in a Messages subfolder of your mailbox folders (this was done mostly for Spotlight support as well as to prevent mailbox overflow)
Putting the mails in a shared location - I doubt that this will work. In addition to the individual emlx files, Mail uses an SQlite database to keep track of those (the file ~/Library/Mail/EnvelopeIndex) - since the numbers of the emlx files correspond to the entries within that SQlite db, this will never be identical for multiple computers (and you will need to rebuild the mailbox on each computer in order to force-update the db and have new messages appear).
Removing attachments - you probably should not do this manually by editing the individual messages on disk (again, since you will mess up the integrity of the database. There is a command in Mail's menu for this: "Message → Remove Attachments"
Andreas

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