How to delete all email attachments to free up space?

I'm on a MBP with a 240 GB SSD. Somehow my Mail folder is 90 GB!
I'd like to have an expert tell me how to go about deleting all of the attachments from my SSD so that I can free up space.
My set up is several work email accounts, and one personal email account, on Mail.app, all IMAP via Google Apps and Gmail.
I found this, and tried it, but only freed up 4 GB, which doesn't make sense to me???
http://lifehacker.com/5841097/how-to-delete-or-archive-attachments-in-apple-mail -and-free-up-disk-space
Thanks!

Could you break this down for me more specifically? Hit menu after I've gotten into my email? I don't see delete in the menu (only the box to the left of the actual email itself). Thanks for any help!!

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