Apple Mail & .Mac Flaw - Eating HUGE Bandwidth

I received a call from the Comcast security service yesterday. Comcast told me that my cable modem reflected more than 1TB of data streaming thru it last month. Comcast threatened to turn my service off if I had another month like that.
I have 4 macs sitting behind a wired router with a secure firewall - the macs have IP addresses assigned by the router. File sharing is turned off. Norton anti-virus software running. I figured Comcast was wrong, until I checked the lights on the router. Data was just flying on and off my Mac Pro Tower (running 10.5.2).
I went into panic mode. I figured that somebody had gained access to the 500GB of data on my hard drive, which presented a very ugly ID theft scenario. so I wnet down the road of setting up a fraud alert, changed passwords (using a secure computer at my office, etc), canceling credit cards, etc.
I then added SurplusMeter, to see what was going on. Sure enough, huge amounts of data moving up and down. Surprisingly, more data was moving down than up. What the ****?
I then added Little Snitch. Firefox open, Safari open, Apple Mail open, and the data was flying. I didn't keep track, but I was downloading a GB of data as fast as my high speed cable modem would allow apparently, with lots of data moving up to.
The data stopped moving when I closed everything. That's odd. I opened up Firefox and Safari, and no data moved. I closed Firefox and Safari and then opened up Apple Mail, and the data started flying again. Little Snitch showed the connection to Apple Mail as the only existing network connection.
I use Apple Mail with a dotmac account. The only email program and provider I use. I had a ton of messages in my inbox on the dotmac side and the Apple Mail side, so I moved those to folders, archived or deleted them. The data was still flying. I deleted all plist and reindexed my messages on the Apple Mail side. No change.
I upgraded to 10.5.3 - no change.
I finally went back to the dotmac side, and found 37 messages in my SENT folder. The messages covered a year - they might have been messages that I sent using dotmac over the web while I was traveling. When I deleted those messages from my dotmac SENT folder, the data movement stopped completely.
This is a SERIOUS problem. I found two other mentions of this problem in this forum. No response to either message. Apple Mail - dotmac generated more than 1TB of data streaming over a one month period. I gather this is an isolated problem. But there is nothing special about my email usage or storage. (Apple Mail had been acting odd for a while - the program would hang 90% of the time when I would close it. I would have to use Force Quit.)

I'm having the same problem, my inbox on my mail server is only 45MB, and I get about 100KB of email a day, but my mail app is somehow transferring 20TB a month to my mail server!!!! It all happens in the background so I don't even notice it going on.
I'm about to get kicked off my host. APPLE??? what the heck is going on?

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