Odd nesting of inboxes and To Do in Mail from spammy account

I have an email account of a client that is not used frequently and has gotten woefully clogged with spam  In addition, over a period of times, we have deleted then reconfigured the account in a single machine a bunch of times or set it up on (and deleted and reconfigured) on different machines.  Of course, we have reset the password countless times.  Mail has not cooperated well through this often unable to sync or authenticate the account.  Had this been a critical email account, we would've resolved this sooner, but it's been on again/off again.  At the same time, we don't want to blow away the entire account from the server. 
At this time, we are completely unable to get Mail to access this account.  Another email client, Thunderbird, has succeeded (and failed on and off).  I've noticed over time that the account seems to have several "Apple Mail To Do" 'mailboxes' and "INBOX" listings when displayed on some browser-basedemail readers (attached is the image from the reader "Horde"). 
Also, when we are able to sometimes sync with Mail, from the activity viewer, I can see a bunch of messages displaying something like "traversing mailbox hierarchy" and such.  I can't recall all of the messages and I'm unable to get a screenshot from Mail b/c it is not accessing the account at this time. 
My question is, is there some kind of structure that Mail is creating for this account?  Is it possible that the multiple configurations create new sets of "Apple Mail To Do" folders?  Is there some way to manage/edit those?  While this account has a lot of spam in it, it may also have other issues which could be result of this extra overhead of files.  Just thinking.....
Thanks in advance!
Lee

In Mail Preferences/Accounts/each GMail account, set up the SMTP Outgoing Server for each account separately, going into SMTP name/edit/Advanced and specify the Username of each account.  The Outgoing servers must be two different servers, authenticated by the Username and Password of each.
Otherwise, the GMail SMTP server will change the from address to that of the account where the SMTP server was setup.
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