Disk storage used by Mac Mail?

I was trying to figure out what was eating up my iMac's hard drive and came across the surprising fact that my IMAP accounts using Mac Mail as the client involve many GB of disk storage. [Mail is not the worst offender, but it is puzzling.]
Can anyone explain what the client storage is for? I thought in the IMAP world the messages reside on the server and I expected that only indices with subject lines would resid on my disk. Obviously this is not an accurate picture, at least for Mac Mail. [I have clients for 3 IMAP servers on my Android phone and there is no comparable storage used there.]
Is there a way to clean out my client disk storage without deleting the messages from the server?
Thanks for any help.

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