Where is Mail folder in 10.9.4

I upgraded to 10.9.4. I'm trying to backup my mail to an external backup drive. Prior to upgrade, I could drag the Mail folder to external drive. Now I can't find a Mail folder on my hard drive. Where is it? I just want to do a manual drag and drop backup. Thanks!

Choose Go to Folder from the Finder's Go menu and provide ~/Library/ as the path.
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(Discussions says I can't edit my posts?!)
So I guess this should read: In Tiger It's always been here: Users > Home > Library
Just got a MP G5 and have my old mac (running 10.4.11) connected via firewire, I'm transferring files, pictures etc. In the past I simply loaded my "Mail" Folder into the Home Folder's Library opened Mail app and voila everything exactly how it was on the other machine. Not with Leopard after i moved the Mail Folder into the G5's Library and launch Mail it wants me to set up the acct. as if I was starting a a new as a fresh user.

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Choose Go to Folder from the Finder's Go menu and provide ~/Library/ as the path.
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For the first time today I've backed up using Time Machine, on my MacBook Pro using OS 10.6.8.
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It is highly unusual that your Mail does not appear in your Library folder. Somehow, it would seem that you've told the Mail application to store the mail in a non-standard location.
Ok, the first thing is to make sure we're talking about the same "Library" folder. You have at least two. One is at the root of your startup drive, and is the Library folder for the whole system. The other is user-specific, and belongs to you, but is inaccessible to other users on the Mac (of which there may be none).
From a unix file system perspective the two Library folders (directories) exist in these two places:
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mdfind -name Outbox.mbox
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B.

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It did work!
Thank You.
I did notice that the "Mail" folder in the Library maintains the same date, (the date when I installed Mountain Lion, June 11 2013 6:15 PM) even after there are updates and new E-mails comming in.
The size of the folder does change when I delete (put into trash E-mails) or receive new E-mails, but the date of "date modified" never changes. It stays on June 11, 2013 6:15PM.
Because the date never changes, it makes it hard to know when i look into "Time Machine", which is the most current Mail folder.
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Actually it's in youruser/Library/Mail. The user's Library folder is hidden by default in 10.7 and later, but if you go to Finder, hold down the Option key, and select the Go menu, the Library folder will be shown in the dropdown list and you can open it from there.
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HT204093 Where is my mail folder on my mac

Okay I hope to make sense here....
I had all my mail in the icloud. I then created a folder on my mac for mail older than 6 months. Then mail that was older than 6 months in cloud I moved to my mac.
In mail I had renamed the older than 6 month folder. I still see my old mail in mail. I can't find the corresponding folder on mac, or when I do it really is odd size. Mail in folder on mac is housing 10 years worth of email and coming in at 300MB when I think it would be way bigger, like 1 TB.
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Thank you of the quick reply and I kind of now have more info.
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"Are you desiring to Archive mail older than six months and remove that from Mail?" Not from Mail, but the iCloud, but when I did remove from icloud, I want to make another back up, even though I have time machine. I want to basically burn a DVD or put old email on other storage media.
"With a better understanding of your goal -- I can help you to a solution." Okay great, appreciate it! I hope I made/make sense.
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I actually have it the other way thinking of my iDevices as windows into my mail and my MP as my main repository. I also set my devices to delete of server any mail I move from my devices inbox to minimize multiple deleting unwanted mail.
But the real issue was to be able to access all my stored mail on my MP when traveling. IMAP is a way to go, yes. But my concern, please educate me if I'm wrong, I have 6 email accounts. With POP I can drag any email from any account to the ame folder on my MP.
As I understand IMAP each account would have its own sets of folders. So where I have "Work" ot "ToDo" folder that hold all mail regardless of account, I couldn't have one folder "Work" and drag all mail to it because folders are created per account, per ISP (and I have multiple accounts from various ISPs).
So I'd have to have a Work folder for each IMAP account and have check each instead of one the way it's set using POP - ON MY MAC on my MP.
If I'm right abou this, then using a remote app like SplashTop 2 to use any device to login to my MP to read, reply, delete, store, then is a great solution since I'm actually working on my MP remotely. Only problem would be if I forgot to turn my MP on before traveling.
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Done.
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