Archiving Email

I would like to archive my email up to a certain date and save it in
another folder. I would then like to start fresh in Thunderbird with
only new mail from that date on.

I don't want to throw out the old email(going back to 2001), but since I
don't need immediate access to it, I would like it archived somewhere.
When I back up my profile now it takes a while because of all this old
email.

A friend using Outlook Express (I've tried converting him) simply
highlights the email and drags it to another folder and it's taken care
of. I've tried this with Thunderbird and it doesn't work.

Any ideas?

Scott
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