Save e-mails

I have a problem I will be moving from internet cable Mediacom to DSL service . I have many e-mails about a thousand I need to save so once I move I can view them when I have the DSL . I would like to put them on a thumb drive say a 32 gig and view them later on. I would like to know how I do this and export them to my thumb drive it saves it but when I export it  and view it is just a bunch of junk not my email . Help.

If I understand you correctly, you have created mailbox folders in the Mail application and moved the messages to them. They will appear under On My Mac. Example below:
These mailboxes I have circled are local mailbox folders. Messages copied or moved to a local mailbox are saved on the computer and are no longer tied to any specific email account. If you delete all your email accounts, these folders will still contain the messages you moved to them.
I see you have Time Capsules, but I don't know what you are doing with them. As I said, if you are backing up your hard drive or at least your user folder, these messages are backed up. The local mailboxes are stored in your user account inside your Home Library folder. The Library folder is hidden in Lion, so you can't see them unless you go into that Library folder.
If these messages are of real importance, you can make additional backup by exporting your local mailboxes to an external source. As I have said previously, you can always import these mailboxes back into Mail.

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