OSXFAQ Mac OS X Tip-of-the-Day 
How to back up your Mac OS X Mail
By Scott Sheppard - Editor-in-Chief - OSXFAQ
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Today we are going to learn how to back up your mail in Mac OS X
Note - This applies to Apple's Mail application ONLY.
There is many ways you can back up your Mail. You can back them up to ...
HD
CD
DVD
To back up ALL your mail do this...
Copy the Mail folder that is located in the Library folder in your home
folder (hd/users/home/Library/Mail) to save all of your mailbox
contents.
This will only let you save your POP accounts or the mail that you have
copied to your Mac from an IMAP account (.mac)
You can also just copy a mail box to your media. This is called an mbox
format.
To make an mbox copy of a mailbox just drag the mailbox that you want to
save from the mailboxes drawer to your desktop. This will make an mbox
for that folder. Now you can just save that somewhere else.
If you want to create an mbox file with just some messages or just one
message in a folder just select the message(s) then just choose Save As
from the File menu and it will save them for you :-)
Make sure in the Format pop-up menu to choose "Raw Message Source" then
enter the name you want it to be and save the file.
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