Maintain Quick link b/w received & sent mail intact on archive & re-import

Is there a way to archive a mail account (Inbox and Sent) and re-import the folders inbox and sent mail in a way that the quicklink between mail received and mail sent/forward remain intact?
Because simply moving the inbox box and sent box to folders on OnMyMac results in the loss of this quicklink. That is I can see the Reversed arrow - but it says the sent message has been moved and not traceable.

Well, if it is possible, here's how...
First Quit Mail, then I'd backup these two Mail folders, by right clicking on them in the Finder, then choose Archive/Compress.
Users/YourUserName/Library/Mail
Users/YourUserName/Library/Mail Downloads
(Could be a different folder here if you chose such in Mail Prefs)
Right click on that Mail folder, choose archive, you'll get everything in the folder, and the folder itself in a file called Mail.zip, move it to a safe place, same for the Mail Downloads folder... only the plist is separate.
/Users/YourUserName/Library/Preferences/com.apple.mail.plist
With those files moved to a safe place, unzip them with a double click.
Then open Mil and use the Import function.

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