Doing something wrong in OSX mail, 170gb gobbled up

[pRICE cUBE]

GGD wrote:
Run Disk Inventory X to see what is using the space. Hundreds of 32MB files doesn't add up to 170GB, so maybe there is some sort of mail issue, but it's also possible that there is a bigger issue someplace else.

http://www.derlien.com/downloads/index.html

Also, on those strange files, what are the creation dates? Were they all just recently created during the time all of the disk space got consumed.

I say hundreds but I meant thousands, sorry. The cray thing is I have trashed them and it has taken over 12 hours and slowly deleting each one. I think I have this set on imap.