Need to reduce iCloud storage - help archive mail

I neeed to reduce my iCloud storage due to the upcoming mobile me changes.
I have a huge amount of mail storage, my question, what is the best way to store old email files locally rather than on iCloud? can archive store locally?
Thanks

In Mail on your Mac:
Create a new mailbox: make sure that it's under 'On My Mac' not 'iCloud'.
Go to your inbox, or wherever your old emails are store, in the 'iCloud' part of your list in Mail.
Select the latest, then shift-click the earliest, of the emails you want to move. I shouldn't try to do too many at once.
Drag them to the mailbox you just created.
Take the dog for a walk while they download. They will be removed from the server.
You'll have to do this from time to time to keep the numbers on iCloud down (Rules apply only to mail as it comes in so AFAIK you can't apply the process automatically to emails once they reach a certain age).

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