5,210 emails: will not delete lion 10.7.2 Mail 5.1

     This is getting ridiculous. I posted about this before with no help then
Now its up to 5210 email messages. I deleted the account in preferences and got the following message
I have no idea what this means. Tried to look up what a emlx file is with no luck. The email account is for all forum/board/facebook notifications, being I have deleted the emails from web mail a number of times completely as they arent important
So the account preferences are gone but the emails are somewhere
Anyone can help it would be appreciated its bugging me big time and my mail client is getting slow
thanks

EDIT: please try quitting Mail.app and restarting your Mac before considering what I wrote below. The procedure below assumes the email notifications are actually on your Mac. The error msg you're getting could just be a conflict between the database index and the folder contents.
First, quit Mail.app.
Click on Finder. Hold down the 'option' key while you click on the 'Go' menu in the Finder menubar. Keep the 'option' key held down, and choose 'Library' (you can let go of the option key now).
Navigate to ~/Library/Mail/Mailboxes/Deleted...
There may be more than one, but you'll soon find the one with 5000+ emlx's in it. Highlight the mailbox in Finder,
Open Terminal.app and paste this command (be careful not to include any extra space either before or after the selection)
sudo rm -rf
then press the SPACEBAR, then drag the mailbox from Finder into the Terminal window.
Press 'Return' on your keyboard.
Type in your password (it'll be invisible) and press 'Return' again.
When you're returned to the command prompt (should be quick) hold down the 'control' key and the 'c' key simultaneously.
Then quit Terminal. Restart Mail.app
Message was edited by: softwater

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