Storing a mailbox on an external drive

I've done it before so I know it's possible, but now it's broken and I can't get it back.
I want to store a mailbox of sub-mailboxes on an external portable drive so I have them at work and at home. I've tried various combinations of creating aliases, creating symlinks (soft only - hard symlinks won't cross volumes) and creating the mailbox in Mail, then replacing it with an alias.
Mail insists on reading only things it's created.
Wish I could remember how I got it working! (This is Mail 2.1.1 on Tiger on Intel).
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So many questions on this forum - I think I've fallen off the radar...

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I can not store all my Music on my internal Macbook pro hard drive so I am storing it on a large external drive connected to my airport extreme (2 TB drive plugged into the USB port). I see the drive on my laptop and I can add and delete files no problem. How do I get Itunes to search for the music here with out trying to copy it to my laptop's hard drive? I don't have enough space to do that.

How did you move the music to the external drive? What exactly is on the drive? The entire iTunes folder or only music? If it is the entire iTunes folder you can do the option+start suggestion earlier. If you copied only music and did so by dragging it there then you need to delete it again and consolidate/organize it there instead so iTunes tracks the move. iTunes 12 for Mac: Change where your iTunes files are stored - http://support.apple.com/kb/PH19507

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HT1766 Can the backup file for a IPAD be stored and accessed on an external drive?

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Storing movie projects (iMovie) on external drive

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As I think many have experienced, my hard drive is filling up. I would like to but most of my music on an external drive. This I know how to do. But I would like to keep the library itself on my local drive. This is so that when I am not home with my external drive connected I can still use iTunes to download and update podcasts and download new purchased music from iTunes Store.
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http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=93037
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