Cannot Delete my domain controlled mailbox in mail.app

Hi. I just got a Mac Server (Mac Mini). I set it up i plugged it into my network at home. For some reason, my iMac prompted me to setup ical and mail. Not knowing much about it, I just proceeded on with it. A mailbox appeared in my mail.app which i could not remove. I searched around and tried my best to remove it without avail. The mailbox name is
<my username>@CYC-MAC1.local
Problem is, I've reformatted my server and reinstalled the OS and so CYC-MAC1.local does not exist anymore.
How do i get rid of it? I tried
1) Deleting the com.apple.mail.plist file
2) Deleting the mailbox from mail.app preferences, but it just keeps coming back.
Not sure what else i can try. Any ideas would be appreciated. Thanks!

Duh, I managed to solve it myself.
What I found out is that my ISP's DNS as well as invalid certificates were the most likely culprit.
What I did was go to System Preferences -> Network -> Click "Advanced..." for my Wi-Fi -> then selected the "DNS" tab.
For "DNS Servers" I added in Google's public DNS which is 8.8.8.8.
Once set, I started the Mail app and went into the preferences for the mailbox that had the issue. Immediately I received a prompt for the certificates. I then displayed the certificate and then set "Always Trust" for the certificate.
When done, it was all ok!

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i found out my prob!
here is what you do.
go to the "system preferences" on your dock.
click "software updates".
click "installed software"
if it shows something about a recent update about "EFI UPDATE, FIRMWARE, THUNDERBOLT" or anything like that, exit out of it.
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hit the "+" (right next to the "-") and add your accout back!
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Hi AdamKB, sorry for late follow-up.
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Hi,
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I just added the accounts again, and it went perfectly with my 3 gmails account, once that the main sever (gmail) kept all the emails in the inbox, and i was able to get everything back. But i am having a hard time to restore all my email from my 2 hotmails accounts. I seems that my hotmail sever was not keeping my emails in the inbox because once i logged in in the hotmail website, my inbox was clear, and all the emails were in the deleted folder. I had stuff from 3 years in my mail.app that i cant find, i was just able to recover until early october from the main sever.
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