Mail - How can I set up a mailbox on an external drive?

I am using a 13 inch MacBook Pro for work, running OS X Yosemite (ver. 10.10.3).  I have a 4TB external drive attached, a portion of which I use for Time Machine and the rest is available for storage.  I use the mail application to handle all of my email accounts.  I currently store my email messages in mailboxes on my server.  However, we have limits on our work Exchange server.  I have a limited amount of storage on my MacBook Pro and a lot of email with a lot of large attachments.  I suspect that I will quickly fill my MacBook Pro storage.  So, I would like to create a mailbox on my external drive to which I will store these larger messages.  Can someone tell me if this is possible and if so how to do it?

You can select a folder in Mail and export the folder as an Apple mbox file. You will not be able to view these messages in Mail without having to import back into Mail.
Select Mailbox
Under Mailbox in the Menu bar, select Export Mailbox...
If you want access, to these emails that is a bit trickier. Let me know and we can discuss options.

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