How do I delete 88,000 emails on Mail

I use the email from my COX Internet provider account on Safari and only once in awhile the MAIL application opens up because, for example, I am sending the link to a Web page to someone. For whatever reason, if I do end up opening MAIL, it takes a long time to open all my various mail account on COX, GMAIL, YAHOO, and download new and old emails. I see that on, one COX account alone, there are 88,000 messages, mostly unread. I tried to sort via incoming date and deleting them using select shift to highlight pages of the messages and hitting delete. Even if that works, I see that it will take unacceptable amounts of my time and I might even then have to empty the TRASH on Safari to finally get rid of all of them. That takes more hours when the computer, not me, will be working.
Anyway, looking at various support pages I've not found out how to delete either all, or most of the old emails on MAIL and still have them on my accounts in the IP Cox mail, gmail and yahoo. The INBOXES on those are not close to being as bad as the situation on the MAIL app. MAIL seems to have emails back to when I bought the computer. Maybe if I straighten it out, I might find MAIL more useful.
Of course, I suppose I could just leave the MAIL inbox full of 88,000 since it does not seem to do any harm, except to make me not want to use MAIL.
Preferably, it would be nice to clean up the application, but I do not know how.

Hi Donald,
click on "Mailbox" then "Restore" (the very last option in the dropdown menu). Mail will empty the inbox (ALL MESSAGES WILL BE DELETED FROM YOUR INBOX) and will try to reload all the messages right from the mail server(s). If you want to keep the inbox empty simply disconnect your computer from the Internet before clicking "Restore" and change the account settings so that Mail doesn't check your accounts on startup and/or automatically (you'll find that in the account settings).
I hope, this is the solution you were looking for.
Sebastian

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