How do i delete a mailbox

Somehow, I now have two Yahoo accounts on my laptop (I think it happened when I updateed snow leopard a couple of months ago).  This resulted in double messages to my iPhone, which put me over my data usage.  Aggravating!  When I tried to remove one of the yahoo accounts by "delete mailbox" on my laptop, the mailbox remained and the mail remained but the message contents in both Yahoo accounts were empty!  HELP! (please).

I believe you need to delete the account from within the mail preferences where the accounts are listed.

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